Someone Teach Douglas how Apostrophes Work

"For Sweden" (rallybeetle) 07/27/2017 at 11:00 • Filed to: Douglas DeMuro, Doug DeMuro, Rare dougs, Rare demuros, Auto trader dot com slash Oversteer

10

19

When the possessive apostrophe is applied to a word ending in s, the apostrophe goes after the s, and no additional s is applied, Douglas.

But many people say this is correct as well!

Douglas, the Associated Press says you don’t need an Oxford Comma. The people you cite and the Associated Press are monsters. Don’t be a monster, Douglas.

Also, bonus Douglases

When you’re on a date and he knows exactly what to say

When you tell him you didn’t read more on auto trader dot com slash oversteer

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > For Sweden 07/27/2017 at 11:05

4

I think it’s the Ferrari software that is doing it.

Ash78, voting early and often > For Sweden 07/27/2017 at 11:05

0

Demurosteer is actually right. It is “s’s” except in rare cases of historical proper nouns of certain significance (subjective).

Jesus’ disciples

Douglas’ disciples

Wait, never mind, DeMuro might be right after all...

MonkeePuzzle > For Sweden 07/27/2017 at 11:12

1

“When you tell him you didn’t read more on auto trader dot com slash oversteer”

solid gold!

MonkeePuzzle > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 07/27/2017 at 11:12

3

WHAT A QUIRK!

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > For Sweden 07/27/2017 at 11:17

0

Douglas is iPhone.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > MonkeePuzzle 07/27/2017 at 11:20

0

Because If I linked my phone with it, it would probably say Daily’s phone. OR at least that’s what most infotainment systems I’ve seen do.

CaptDale - is secretly British > For Sweden 07/27/2017 at 11:53

1

I always assumed that he was one of those weirdos that was just named Doug or Rick. Not short for anything. Just that.

lone_liberal > For Sweden 07/27/2017 at 11:54

0

I thought that only applied if the S makes it plural? If a word, or name, ends in S but is still singular I thought adding ‘s was correct?

For Sweden > CaptDale - is secretly British 07/27/2017 at 11:54

4

Doug in the streets and Douglas in the sheets

For Sweden > lone_liberal 07/27/2017 at 11:55

2

But many people say this is correct as well!

Douglas, the Associated Press says you don’t need an Oxford Comma. The people you cite and the Associated Press are monsters. Don’t be a monster, Douglas.

CaptDale - is secretly British > For Sweden 07/27/2017 at 11:58

0

Eww *yack*

cmill189 - sans Volvo > MonkeePuzzle 07/27/2017 at 11:58

0

Please link me to your AutoTrader.com/oversteer article for more thoughts on this quirk. Please make sure it’s pretty much exactly what you already said in your comment.

lone_liberal > For Sweden 07/27/2017 at 12:00

1

I don’t know nothin’ about that fancy Oxford wordin’. Just what was beat in to me by Mrs. Kraugh in 4th grade. Those were the longest 3 years of my life.

Brian McKay > lone_liberal 07/27/2017 at 12:01

0

You’re correct.

Also, as he’s known as “Doug DeMuro,” the screen could’ve read, “Doug’s iPhone.”

Brian McKay > For Sweden 07/27/2017 at 12:03

0

That person’s name is not “a word ending in s.”

Wacko > MonkeePuzzle 07/27/2017 at 12:12

1

Thomas Donohue > For Sweden 07/27/2017 at 12:19

0

Bravo. Bravo!

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > For Sweden 07/27/2017 at 15:57

1

What if there are multiple Douglases and they all own the iPhone cooperatively? Can it just be Douglas’s’s’s’s’s? With an extra ‘s for each Doug?

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > For Sweden 07/27/2017 at 20:53

0

iTunes automatically names your phone, with the first name you entered when you set up your account (on your Mac). If my name was Fred, my iMac would be visible on various networks (including to my wifi router’s connection history) as “Fred’s iMac”, and my iPhone as “Fred’s iMac”. Except my name isn’t Fred, and even if it was I know how to change this, so my iMac is named a random string of digits (there was a keyboard smash or two involved) and my phone is “Þórr’s iHammer” because I’m a badass like that.