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-ꞌ ' English Pronunciation Pronunciation of -s&apos;, -es&apos;: after a vowel or a voiced consonant other than a sibilant z zəz, en /z/ /zɪz/ ' after voiceless consonants /p/, /t/, /k/, /f/, or /θ/ s səz, en /s/ /sɪz/ ' after sibilant consonants /s/, /z/, /ʃ/, /ʒ/, /tʃ/, /dʒ/: ĭz RP,GA,non-weak vowel, en /ɪz/ ' əz AU,weak vowel, en /əz/ ' Particle en particle -’ ' Possessive marker used on plurals that end with -s (or -es, etc). Her heart leapt when she saw the expressions on her teachers’ faces. their faces’ expressions The countesses’ husbands were generally quite lavish. en three days’ growth of beard en I have over thirty years’ experience. I'll have your car repaired in a few days' time. Possessive marker sometimes used on singular names which end in s, indicating than an object belongs to the noun bearing the marker. Jesus&apos; disciples Chris&apos; cake recipe en August 29, 2014 Minyvonne Burke Robin Williams Death: Actor’s Ghost Haunting Home He Died In, Playing Practical Jokes? HNGN Headlines & Global News http://www.hngn.com/articles/40804/20140829/robin-williams-death-actor-s-ghost-haunting-home-died-playing.htm Robin Williams’ ghost has apparently stuck around and is haunting the California home the actor died in. https://web.archive.org/web/20211112044624/https://www.hngn.com/articles/40804/20140829/robin-williams-death-actor-s-ghost-haunting-home-died-playing.htm en May 04, 2023 GOP Megadonor Harlan Crow Paid Tuition For Clarence Thomas’ Relative, Report Says w:Forbes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-3gD0gxylM 0:09 GOP donor and real estate magnate Harlan Crow paid thousands of dollars in tuition for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ grandnephew, who he served as the legal guardian for, ProPublica reports, without the justice disclosing it, the latest in a series of controversies involving Thomas’ financial relationship with Crow that have sparked ethics concerns and calls for Thomas to resign. Usage notes The plural possessive -s’ can be distinguished from the possessive marker -&apos; on nouns that terminate in -s and from the possessive marker -'s (which see). Whether they are pronounced identically or differently varies between idiolects. The BBC prescribes the following distinction:Learning English: Use of the apostrophe (a) Dickens novel and Dickens’ novel /dɪkɪnz nɒvəl/, Dickens’s novel /dɪkɪnzɪz nɒvəl/; princess’s and princesses’ /pɹɪn.sɛs.ɪz/; i.e. adding bare ’ does not change pronunciation. Some speakers, however, may pronounce one or both as /ɪz/, i.e. Dickens’ as /ˈdɪkɪnzɪz/, princesses’ as /pɹɪn.sɛs.ɪz.ɪz/, and e.g. boys’ as /bɔɪzɪz/ (instead of the more common /bɔɪz/). Traditionally, the possessives of classical and Biblical names ending in s, such as en Archimedes and en Jesus, were written without a final “s”, i.e. the possessives were formed using bare &apos;: Archimedes’ Principle (the principle of Archimedes), Jesus’ disciples (the disciples of Jesus). This may or may not be distinguished from -'s in pronunciation; see -'s for more. The American Heritage Dictionary (under the entry "possessive") extends this to other words or names having at least two syllables, such as Dickens&apos; or witness&apos;. In modern English, the practice in fact extends to all names ending in s, i.e. both "Chris' recipe" and "Chris's recipe" are found: en 2009 Karen Hitchcock Little White Slips 1466826851 Sam, the Lebanese milk bar man, followed Chris's recipe. en 2012 Jack Edward Shay Bygone Binghamton: Remembering People and Places of the Past 1467065021 That was Chris&apos; recipe. -’ may also be used on nouns ending in an s sound (i.e., not necessarily ending in the letter s). en Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745: John Erskine, Earl of Mar. James Radcliffe, Earl of Derwentwater. The Master of Sinclair. Cameron of Lochiel Katherine Thomson 1845 118 The dose must be carefully made up, and no appearance of its comeing from any other hand but the Doctrix’ own. en Reports of Selected Cases Decided in the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court and Other Courts of the State of New York Other Than the Court of Appeals and the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court: Miscellaneous Reports 1943 282 An application by the fiduciaries of the testatrix’ estate for an extension of time to permit the filing of a renunciation on behalf of a beneficiary who postdeceased the testatrix and for approval of same is denied without prejudice to a renewed application on notice to those persons whose interest may be created or increased by the proposed renunciation (EPTL 2-1.11), i.e., the personal representative of the estate of the renouncing party and if there is no fiduciary, the renouncing party’s distributees, since they may be prejudiced by approval of the application. en Lee M. Fratantuono; R. Alden Smith Commentary Virgil, Aeneid 4: Text, Translation, Commentary Leiden Brill 2022 386 978-90-04-52143-8 We remember here Juno’s similar state of indignation at 1.39 quippe vetor fatis; cf. 1.661 quippe domum timet ambiguam Tyriosque bilinguis (the rationale for Venus’ machinations with Cupid in Carthage); 12.421–422 … subitoque omnis de corpore fugit / quippe dolor …, of Iapyx’ successful ministrations of Aeneas’ arrow wound after Venus had intervened invisibly with the dittany. References Danish Suffix forms the possessive of words ending in s, x or z See also da -'- da -s German Suffix de suffix Genitive suffix for words that end in a sibilant consonant. For other names, de -s is used. de -ens<q:dated> de Hans' Mutter Hans' mother Usage notes See notes at de -ens. Lower Tanana Suffix taa suffix taa -a' possessed noun suffix, used with terms ending in a vowel. References Norwegian Bokmål Etymology An orthographic variant of the genitive particle nb -s, used when the final word of the noun phrase already ends in written ⟨s⟩, ⟨x⟩ or ⟨z⟩. The additional genitive s is omitted and the genitive is instead marked with an apostrophe. Particle nb particle A written marker used to form the genitive of a noun phrase whose final word ends in ⟨s⟩, ⟨x⟩ or ⟨z⟩. nb Vesaas’ forfatterskap Vesaas's literary works nb Bordeaux’ byvåpen Bordeaux's coat of arms nb Grete Waitz’ innsats Grete Waitz's contribution Usage notes The marker is purely orthographic and has no pronunciation of its own. A form such as nb Vesaas Vesaas’ is pronounced identically to nb Vesaas. The rule is based on the final written letter, not merely the final sound. Words and names not ending in written ⟨s⟩, ⟨x⟩ or ⟨z⟩ take the ordinary genitive particle nb -s, as in Bushs reise and Buschs initiativ. Unlike in English, an apostrophe is normally not placed before the ordinary genitive nb -s: Astrids bil, EUs direktiv. Apostrophe followed by s is nevertheless prescribed after certain initialisms and abbreviations, as in Ap’s politikk and en pc’s prosessor. See also nb -s References apostrof “Apostrof”, Språkrådet.