links for 2008-02-22

3 Responses to “links for 2008-02-22”

  1. joel Says:

    Is it Jesus’s or Jesus’? I always thought the latter but so many people have been using the s’s I picked it up…

  2. Michael Tangeman Says:

    Not sure, actually. You know, with the almost-divine intervention of an apostrophe, a single “s” can become multiplied … kind of like a weak attempt at doing the fishes and loaves thing, I suppose one might say.

    But, to underscore the orthographical difficulties involved, note that I had to rewrite that last sentence to avoid saying that apostrophes can really multiple s’es … now wouldn’t that have been confusing. How does one write the plural of “s”?

  3. Brendan Says:

    As a sometime copywriter, I can miraculously reveal – by divine intervention – that it should be jesus’s. Fact.


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