When do you use an extra apostrophe “s” following a last name ending with the letter “s”?
Chicago Manual of Style, 14th Edition, 6.24-30 says:
The general rule for the possessive of nouns covers most proper nouns, including most names ending in sibilants (but see exceptions in 6.26-27 and alternatives in 6.30). Kansas’s; Burns’s poems; Marx’s theories; [...]
By Suzanne Rust
Lauren Elizabeth Rust, seven years old, was born with a mild/moderate loss in the low/high frequencies and her loss has progressed to severe/profound in the low/high frequencies.
Although she reads lips well, Lauren Elizabeth has difficulty hearing when people are not facing her. She currently wears hearing aids that work to translate the high/mid [...]
By Cameron & Jeremy’s mother
Cameron and Jeremy are very close in age. When they were adopted, I was unsure to what extent their prenatal drug exposure would affect their lives. As the years pass, their difficulties are being revealed!
Due to the drug exposure, both boys suffered brain damage. Cameron was diagnosed with Sensory [...]
By Misherald “Missy” Brown
As parents we all have our dreams and expectations of what our children should be like, but have you ever thought about what it feels like to live as a child who people see as different . . . but as a parent, you see this child as a special little person [...]
By Delmer and Ann Michelle Brower
Our son, Kennan James Brower, is seven-and-a-half years old. At age three, we noticed some things weren’t quite right, but did not know how serious it was until a little over a year ago.
We discovered that because of nicotine, alcohol, and cocaine exposure in utero, he has the following [...]
By Colleen Siau
On January 5, 2011, at four months old, Evie’s life changed. All of our lives changed. Evie went to the hospital that morning after having her first of over twenty seizures ranging from 2-45 minutes each. Two days later, it was confirmed that she had Sturge-Weber Syndrome.
Sturge-Weber is characterized by [...]
Monday morning, my brother, David Crook, friend Martha Retallick, and I, went to the Phoenix Zoo. We had a wonderful time.
Retallick recently published a book, Bike-tography. “When I was in my early twenties,” she says, “I set the goal of bicycling through all 50 of the United States. I accomplished this over a twelve-year period, [...]
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and ESET just put out a dandy newsletter to help us stay out of harm’s way.
Why do I recommend this ezine? Because I’ve been an ESET customer for over three years, and it is a superb program that doesn’t hog space or cause glitches. Very smooth. Very easy. Very reliable. [...]
This week I made arrangements by email (works like a charm with my hearing disability) with Juan Martinez of Peoria Kia.
My beautiful red Kia Soul needed an oil change and tire rotation. I took it in for a 9:30 appointment, and settled down for a long wait. The wait is always pleasant, as they have [...]
