Plural s sounds?
When you add an apostrophe to a word with an s already, does the apostrophe make a sound? As in James’, is it pronounced Jameses? Princess’ sounds like princesses?
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Yes it does! i.e. James’ dog got out last night.
If you just say James by itself it doesn’t imply ownership. When you say it like Jameses, then you know that the dog belongs to James. Hope that makes sense and helps!
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The plural of princess is princesses. Something belonging to a princess would be the princess’ shoes, for example. You add an es to to words ending in s, you add an apostrophe to show ownership. In both cases, the s sound is made.
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I was told that if the “s” sounded like a “z” use “s’ ” otherwise it would be ” ‘s”.
-MM
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More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Singular_nouns_ending_in_s.2C_z.2C_or_x
-MM
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yes. you have to pronounce both s’s. said like essis.
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…yup…
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