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You’ll also commonly see an apostrophe followed by an “s” used to indicate a contraction of “is” or “has” with the previous word. You can tell which word it’s short for based on the context (e.g., “my car’s [car is] not very fast”; “my car’s [car has] got a few dents”). There is one context in which style guides do advise adding an apostrophe for a plural. This is when you’re pluralizing an individual letter. In Spain, the change was mainly accomplished between 1760 and 1766. In France, the change occurred between 1782 and 1793. Printers in the United States stopped using the long s between 1795 and 1810. In English orthography, the London printer John Bell (1745–1831) pioneered the change. His edition of Shakespeare, in 1785, was advertised with the claim that he "ventured to depart from the common mode by rejecting the long 'ſ' in favor of the round one, as being less liable to error....." [5] The Times of London made the switch from the long to the short s with its issue of 10 September 1803.

People are particularly likely to believe an apostrophe is needed when pluralizing nouns ending in vowel sounds (e.g., “frisbee’s”), numbers or decades (e.g., “1980’s”), surnames (e.g., “Jones’s”), or acronyms (e.g., “TV’s”), but the apostrophe is wrong in all of these contexts. The correct forms are “frisbees,”“1980s,”“Joneses,” and “TVs.” Exception: Pluralizing letters Some style guides instead advise italicizing the letter (but not the following “s”): “two es.” Worksheet: Possessive apostrophe In this case, the result of just adding an “s” without any punctuation can often be mistaken for another word (e.g., “is”) or simply look wrong (e.g., “ss”). So it’s standard to add an apostrophe in this context. Example: Apostrophe “s” to pluralize lowercase lettersThere are five s’s and two e’s in “assesses.”

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Latin small letter s with mid-height left hook was used by the British and Foreign Bible Society in the early 20th century for romanization of the Malayalam language. [16] In English and several other languages, primarily Western Romance ones like Spanish and French, final ⟨s⟩ is the usual mark of plural nouns. It is the regular ending of English third person present tense verbs. Note that adding an apostrophe before the existing “s” without adding an extra “s” (e.g., “Dariu’s”) is always wrong. With words in italics or quotation marks

Everson, Michael (2019-04-25). "L2/19-180R: Proposal to add two characters for Middle Scots to the UCS" (PDF). Although “children” is a plural noun, it’s an irregular one that doesn’t end in “s,” so the “s” is added in this case. s>, the opening tag for the HTML element denoting information that is "no longer accurate or no longer relevant", usually rendered as strike-through text It would be simpler, of course, if there were only one form in use, and there's an argument to be made for using it's in all cases; 's serves both purposes just fine for nouns. In the cat's bowl it signals possession, and in the cat's sleeping it represents the contracted verb is. The same applies to other singular nouns ending in an “s” sound when they are used before “sake.” The other common examples are “for conscience’ sake” and “for appearance’ sake.” Names ending in “s”The ⟨sh⟩ digraph for English /ʃ/ arises in Middle English (alongside ⟨sch⟩), replacing the Old English ⟨sc⟩ digraph. Similarly, Old High German ⟨sc⟩ was replaced by ⟨sch⟩ in Early Modern High German orthography. When forming the possessive of a noun that’s written in italics (e.g., the title of a book or movie), the apostrophe “s” should not be in italics, because it’s not part of the title. Write the apostrophe and the “s” without any special formatting. Other forms such as “our’s,”“your’s,”“her’s,” and “their’s” simply aren’t real words. Apostrophe “s” as a contraction of “is” or “has” An apostrophe followed by an “s” is the most common way to indicate possession (ownership) in English. This applies to most singular nouns and also to plural nouns that don’t end in “s” (e.g., “women” becomes “women’s”).