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Written by Pseudo Nym on 2025-01-05 at 05:47

First, they took my double space after a period (yes, I understand the technical arguments) but that's muscle memory that won't go away. Search and replace and automation can handle that.

But now I find out possessives for proper names ending in "s" are s-apostrphe-s and not just s-apostrophe.

https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/PossessivesandAttributives.html

Neither are linguistic typographic hills I'm willing to die on, language changes. But it's annoying to unlearn what was the "right way" to do something.

I learned

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