Talk:Apostrophe (figure of speech)

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wow, i came here to look up how to denote ownership for a word that ends in s, and discovered this interesting little gem. O wikipedia, how i love you The bellman 05:46, 2005 May 2 (UTC)


 * Well, did you find it? :-) If the word is actually plural, just add an apostrophe (Aha. Maybe you did find it?), such as in "teachers' lounge"; but if the s is actually part of the word, you add 's: "Sikes's Whale Wash". --Ihope127 04:20, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

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 * Confused -and I teach english!

Came here from O captain my captain - from walt whitman and dead poets - from henry david thoreau's death being today...

which came first - speech or the omissive/possessive?Crescent 08:06, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Ok I changed Claudius's to Claudius' as I was pretty sure that was right but now (after reading this talk page) am not so sure.... Actually looking over the page I have just read "If the word ends in an s but is singular, practice varies as to whether to add 's or only an apostrophe" so now im just confused... If you want to change it back, do. Rkeys


 * I changed it back, but thanks for taking the time to leave a note here. If you see the article Hamlet, there are loads of occurrences of "Claudius's" and "Polonius's". But it's almost too delightful for words to be having a discussion about Apostrophe (punctuation) on the Apostrophe (figure of speech) article. Sgt Pinback 20:51, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Isnt this part of Rhetoric instead of figure of speech —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.217.35.83 (talk) 00:36, 3 October 2008 (UTC) How is "And you, Eumaeus..." the Odyssey an example? Eamaeus is a person (he's the loyal swineherd who helps out Odysseus, if I'm not mistaken). Saying that he's an object is rather a big insult, isn't it? I didn't take it out, because I'm not confident enough of my opinions to change wikipedia, just wanted to point it out. Is "O Canada" using apostrophe (I think it might, it fits the pattern)? If so it should be included in the list of references. 96.63.14.32 (talk) 13:17, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

English proverb

 * "God deliver me from fools."

Doubtful. I take it as beginning with implied May; subjunctive, not imperative. —Tamfang (talk) 21:14, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
 * agreed. Firejuggler86 (talk) 02:00, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

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I am interested in te rlationship between this usage, in rhetoric, and the punctuation mark. If any.