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# new from glade
also, 'jesus's'
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Thu 23 Oct 2014, 14:48, archived)
# read a rule ages ago about names ending in s only dropped the trailing if they could be seen as a plural (eg 'james' but not chris)
seemed a bit arbitrary at the time and can't find it now
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Thu 23 Oct 2014, 14:54, archived)
# This is fabulous information, please keep looking
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# it's very important that we all know the correct answer to this
nationwide illiteracy is only seconds away
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Thu 23 Oct 2014, 14:58, archived)
# "James" is - or at least was - a plural
One jame, multiple james. A jame is a type of hairy caterpillar native to the Middle East. If a child was born with bushy eyebrows, the midwife would often say "Quite a pair of james on this one" and often the parents would take that as a suitable name, "James".

Also, in "The 4400", the Messiah-like figure Jordan Collier shares initials with Jesus Christ.
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# Eh?
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# I could never remember the rules
been waiting for a grammar nazi to correct me on my sig
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# is it? right-o
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# looks wrong now, can you put it back the way it was
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Thu 23 Oct 2014, 14:58, archived)
# sure
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# That is correct
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# That is correct about its correctness.
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# This is also correct
Source: b3ta.com/board/11107640
(I helped save b3ta! Asnivor needs more bandwidth for his profile, Thu 23 Oct 2014, 15:44, archived)
# As a former English teacher and online pedant...
...I'd have said that either is acceptable.

My copy of Fowler's Modern English Usage, however, asserts the following (amongst 23 different rules governing the use of apostrophes):

"Use 's for the possessive case in English names and surnames whenever possible; i.e. in all monosyllables and disyllables, and in longer words accented on the penult... Jesus' is an acceptable liturgical archaism."

Oh, and apparently I've been pronunciating apartheid wrong.
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