My daughter is named Bliss. We want to know how to label things like "Bliss's Toy Box" or would it be "Blisses Toy Box" or "Bliss' Toy Box" as you can tell I'm quite confused... Help please :)
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Please look at this: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/79081/which-singular-names-ending-in-s-form-possessives-with-only-a-bare-apostrophe – Blubberguy22 Jul 14 '15 at 19:28
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3It's Bliss's. – Peter Shor Jul 14 '15 at 19:39
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Congratulations!
And when you come to stay in England you can spell it Bliss's and pronounce it Blissiz.
However if you ever need to discuss The Times 's Front Page, use italics, to avoid this "The Times'" or this "The Times"'s.
And in Poetry and the Bible use the old-fashioned style: Venus' bath, Achilles' thews, Jesus' ministry. (No extra syllable!)
But in everyday use it should be Charles's Wain, Jones's children, Pythagoras's theorem. Each is pronounced with final -zez or -ses as an extra syllable.
So says Modern Englishm Usage by H.W.Fowler whose examples I have used and whose words I have condensed,
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1That's not “the American” way. That’s the way that the Chicago Manual of Style says not to use. – tchrist Jul 15 '15 at 19:57
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@tchrist, thanks. I'm very pleased to hear that. and will edit the ( ) out. – Hugh Jul 15 '15 at 21:24
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@tchrist: As I'm sure I've mentioned elsewhere, we nearly always write St James's Park. And most of the times we don't include the s, we at least write the apostrophe, But in my experience people often don't say the -IZ part even though they clearly know it "exists" orthographically. – FumbleFingers Jul 15 '15 at 23:42