{"id":1224,"date":"2008-03-05T15:08:40","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T20:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/03\/05\/calling-all-grammar-geeks\/"},"modified":"2008-05-13T06:53:28","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T11:53:28","slug":"calling-all-grammar-geeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/03\/05\/calling-all-grammar-geeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling all grammar geeks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up with a surname that ended in the letter &#8220;s&#8221;, it was drilled into me from an early age that one does not add the superfluous &#8220;s&#8221; after the apostrophe to indicate possession in this situation.  Now, it seems <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apostrophe\">common usage <\/a>prefers the additional &#8220;s&#8221; after the apostrophe:  <em>i.e. Lucas&#8217;s breakfast.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Discuss:  the correct way to use a possessive apostrophe with a singular proper noun ending in the letter &#8220;s&#8221; is to use only the apostrophe.  <em>i.e. Lucas&#8217; breakfast.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up with a surname that ended in the letter &#8220;s&#8221;, it was drilled into me from an early age that one does not add the superfluous &#8220;s&#8221; after the apostrophe to indicate possession in this situation. Now, it seems common usage prefers the additional &#8220;s&#8221; after the apostrophe: i.e. Lucas&#8217;s breakfast. Discuss: the correct &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/03\/05\/calling-all-grammar-geeks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Calling all grammar geeks!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-inner-geek","category-wordplay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}