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Truss

Truss

In Lynne Truss's book...
In Lynne Truss' book...
Either


Votes: 195 Comments: 3 Added: December 2003
Comments:
PLP - 8th February 2004 03:11
She uses the first.
 
MrTrilby - 31st January 2006 21:14
Maybe, but it isn't up to her. There's no need to deviate from Standard English just because the word already ends with an 's'. Basically, write what you would say: "Truss's", pronounced "Trusses", is not hard to say, so why not write that?
 
Teia - 7th July 2007 20:39
The first use of genitive is considered to be standard English. As far as I know, all English proper names ending in -s take an `s when the genitive is needed : Dickens`s novels. If we take into consideration foreign proper names as Cervantes, Euripides, Sophocles, etc., we have to add only an `[ apostrophe] in the genitive:
e.g Euripides` works.

Regards
 
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