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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
You have been wrong all this time. "Somers's" is correct. The only non-plural possessives entitled to use the "ess apostrophe" order are "Moses" and "Jesus," and even then it's purely tradition, not grammatical authority. See Strunk & White.
This is a pet peeve. So many lawyers think the "ess apostrophe" goes with any word ending in "s" and not just plurals. The rule says "plurals ending in 's'," and words have meaning, people!
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Learn something new... I don't think I would have offended you, in practice, because my typical reaction is to just reword so that possessive is not required when there is a name ending in S.
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