It's lewis'S not lewis'

williham

mrcow wrote: »

(btw there are two mistakes in the highlighted part of your post - an incorrect use of a comma when a full stop should have been used and a lack of a question mark, which is unforgiveable. )

haha thanks.

GrammarGirl

You can indeed use either to denote a possessive after an S. I would always use a single apostrophe rather than apostrophe S because it looks neater! Some like apostrophe S because that's how you'd pronounce it. Doesn't matter either way.

GrammarGirl

williham wrote: »

The key being whether you would say Martin Lewisuz MSE or Martin Lewis MSE. Martin Lewisuz is how I say it, and is correct grammar.

As for my punctuation.. I was never taught how to use commas properly so I just made it up, but I am not writing for a top money saving website, which is my point. Unless you're not referring to the commas in which case I would like you to point out the mistake(s you don't seem to know whether I have made a mistake or mistakes).

If pronounciation counted towards spelling and grammar, we'd have a whole lot of weird looking words!

If you want to criticise the misuse of grammar in an official text, have a look at the advertising for the film Two Week's Notice, keeping in mind where I put the apostrophe. Shocker!

BlueAngelCV

No mistake, it can be written either way.

KimYeovil

BlueAngelCV wrote: »

No mistake, it can be written either way.

No mistake, it may be written either way. It can be written in an arbitrary number of other ways.

so2006

Seriously, is this how bored we all are? I think i need to get out more!

sinstar

I wish I had time in the middle of the day to trawl the internet posting ridiculous complaints about extremely trivial matters (and be wrong while I am doing it as well).

williham

I've got no job at the moment so I'm just enjoying the sun and posting about things that don't matter, and enjoying that aswell.

myrnahaz

Given all the appalling spelling, grammar and punctuation in some of the posts, it's hard to believe that someone could get so narked about an apostrophe (I was taught that Lewis' was the correct punctuation by the way - you don't need the second 's' when the previous letter is an 's').

mrcow

williham wrote: »

I've got no job at the moment so I'm just enjoying the sun and posting about things that don't matter, and enjoying that aswell.

You could always be our mascot MSE pedant whilst you're still out of work?
The situation has been vacant for a good couple of years now.

Unfortunately, you're going to have to brush up on more than just correct punctuation, spelling and grammar though. Any pedant worth his sorts needs to be well versed in narking up petty critcisms on any subject worthy of discussion.