Poll: Truss
Truss
Poll Stats
This Poll:
- Votes: 432
- Comments: 4
- Added: December 2003
Comments:
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?
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
good exercise
PLP
She uses the first.