Thursday, June 28, 2007

On the possessive apostrophe

Welcome to my place. Although I am Swedish, I've chosen to write in English in the vain hope to reach a larger audience. Audience, schmaudience - the most probable reader(s) of these musings will be myself and possibly people I know that will drop by and say hi.

What can be expected of this YAB*? Not much. I'll post interesting stuff I find on the web and on other blogs. Perhaps there'll even be an original thought from yours truly, but don't count on it.

Before ending this post, here's what I've learned today when researching proper usage of the possessive apostrophe following words ending with 's' (to correctly name the blog): You typically only add a single apostrophe to plurals, but you add 's to singulars. There are a couple of exceptions to singulars: if it is difficult to pronounce you might go with the single apostrophe and if you're talking about Jesus' stuff you leave out the s. I toyed with the idea of going with "Niklas' blog" for that reason - subtly hinting at delusions of grandeur, but the allusion would probably be lost on everybody (myself included had I not read up on the subject just now).

Anyway. Welcome to Niklas's blog. More digressions in later posts.

*Yet Another Blog. But you already knew that, didn't you?

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