Wednesday, September 15, 2010

one of Phelps' teammates; more on Phelps's foe; Phelps' 'terrible swim'

Hmmmm, I can't determine whether it's just an apostrophe after Michael's last name, or if it's apostrophe-S. Ah, screw it - I'll do it twice one way and once the other way. From the Yahoo! Canada homepage on September 14, 2010.

1 comment:

Terribly Write said...

That's hilarious. And a pervasive problem at Yahoo. There was a similar confusion on the U.S. version of Yahoo recently. http://terriblywrite.wordpress.com/2010/09/10/how-to-form-the-possessive-of-a-name-ending-in-s/

How hard is it to establish a house style and follow it?