[lbo-talk] Hitchens' Anti-Imperialism

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That may be correct on Mars, but if I wrote
"Hitchenses" to indicate a singular possessive in an
opinion or brief, my judge (in the old days) or the
supervising partner would change it to "Hitchins'" or
maybe to "Hitchens's"; so here on earth, it is not
punctuationally challenged to soiw rite it. jks

--- Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
> Brad wrote:
> 
> >Max didn't say "Christopher Hitchens'
> anti-imperialism." He said 
> >"Hitchens' anti-imperialism."
> >
> >Max is a clever dog...
> 
> But punctuationally challenged.  The apostrophe
> *after* the s
> in Hitchens is correct only if the s denotes a
> plural--that is,
> it would properly refer to *both* brothers if only
> their
> surname was Hitchen.  To refer to both Hitchens
> brothers
> it would have to be *Hitchenses'*, and to one of
> them
> it should be Hitchenses, sans apostrophe.
> 
> Editoriopedantically,
> 
> Shane Mage
> 
> 
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