On Sep 4, 2009, at 9:52 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
> srsly? back when I was publishing on habermas, i did a massive
> inquiry as to which was the ultimately correct approach: habermas'
> or habermas's. it bugged me that i could never find a definitive
> answer.
Back when I was teaching composition, long long ago, the textbook I used said that you do "s's" for words of one syllable, and just "s'" for words of more than one.