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Bug 314901 - Incorrect Usage of Apostrophe in Home Link
Incorrect Usage of Apostrophe in Home Link
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Desktop
2.13.x
Other All
: Low trivial
: 2.14.x
Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-08-31 01:45 UTC by Christopher Cover
Modified: 2005-10-04 21:17 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.13/2.14

Attachments
Proposed patch. (993 bytes, patch)
2005-08-31 09:25 UTC, Christian Neumair 		rejected Details | Review

Description Christopher Cover 2005-08-31 01:45:26 UTC 
Distribution/Version: Fedora Core 4

Reproduction:
Create a Unix system username, chris.
Log in to Gnome.
See the desktop icon, "Chris's Home."

This is incorrect and has always annoyed me in any O/S.

It should read "Chris' Home," not "Chris's Home"
because our language defines the rule which is true
for any name that ends with the letter, s.
Comment 1 Christian Neumair 2005-08-31 09:23:23 UTC 
Thanks for your bug report!
Considering our big userbase in english-speaking countries, I think it's worth
to special-case this occurence.
Comment 2 Christian Neumair 2005-08-31 09:25:00 UTC 
Created attachment 51602 [details] [review]
Proposed patch.
Comment 3 Christian Neumair 2005-10-04 11:13:26 UTC 
Updating bug information.
Comment 4 Shaun McCance 2005-10-04 17:28:19 UTC 
Actually, "Chris's Home" is correct, according to the Chicago
Manual of Style.  The lone trailing apostrophe is only for
plurals ending with an s sound, and a few special cases.
Comment 5 Christian Neumair 2005-10-04 21:17:24 UTC 
Thanks for pointing this out Shaun. From Wikipedia [1]:

"If a name already ends with an s, the extra s is sometimes dropped: Jesus'
parables. This is more common in U.S. usage and with classical names (Eros'
statue, Herodotus' book). Additionally, many contemporary names that end with
-es (a -z sound) will see the extra s dropped by some writers: Charles' car,
though most style guides advocate Charles's car."

Resolving as NOTABUG.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe_%28mark%29