I am sure you are happy to "say", but not happy to write that, Chris!
However, I have been consulting the oracles. No, not the Chicago Manual of
Style (since when has Chicago been stylish, pray tell?).
The Guardian style guide at
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2004/07/15/stylegui
depdfjuly2004.pdf favours Piers's without clarification, which is
disappointing.
SO it's off to Brussels for the European Commission Directorate-General for
Translation English Style Guide at
http://ec.europa.eu/translation/english/guidelines/documents/styleguide_engl
ish_dgt_en.pdf which ought to be relied upon for a reasoned judgment. It
also favours Piers's (drat!) but has some useful justification for my (our)
preference:
" The -s after terminal s’ used to be omitted in written English, but this
is now done only in classical and biblical names, e.g. Socrates’ philosophy,
Xerxes’ fleet. " which means Piers's but Jesus' (half right and half wrong
again).
So, we are classicists at heart, and incorrect per modern idiom - I think
you will be happy with that condemnation?
Piers
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I’d be tempted to adjust Wiki in favour of Piers’ answer, were a correction
needed.
But I’m happy to say Piers’s or Jesus’s.
Chris
> On 10 Jun 15, at 22:47, Philippe <philippe.amard@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'm at my other home and don't have a grammar book at hand. Yet, wiki lead
me to this
>
> "Possessives and Attributives
>
> Display All Answers
> Q. When indicating possession of a word that ends in s, is it correct to
repeat the s after using an apostrophe? For example, which is correct:
“Dickens’ novel” or “Dickens’s novel”?
>
> A. Either is correct, though we prefer the latter. Please consult 7.15–18
for a full discussion of the rules for forming the possessive of proper
nouns. For a discussion of the alternative practice of simply adding an
apostrophe to form the possessive of proper nouns ending in s, see paragraph
7.21."
>
> Source:
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/PossessivesandAttr
ibutives.html?old=PossessivesandAttributives22.html
<http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/PossessivesandAtt
ributives.html?old=PossessivesandAttributives22.html>
>
> So, Piers's answer seems acceptable, also in part ;-)
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