Settle this grammar debate, please.

[KKD]

For the app users:

Which is correct?

James's

or

James'

eta: Okay, with @misoangry's response, make it: WHICH FORM DO YOU USE?

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Both are correct.

We've been through this.

toledo

[fuckyourcouch]

Both are ALLEGEDLY correct, but James' will always be correct to me.

[game blouses]

James's. There is only one James! Would you pronounce it "I borrowed James car?"

It's been said, but both are technically correct, for the same reason why "alright" is technically correct - people keep using it and everyone's tired of correcting it.

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Nov 6, 2013 19:57:46 GMT -5 toledo said:

Only the first is correct.

Prepare to weep at the answers.  LOL.

JAMES' 4EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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James' is the one I use. My last name ends in s so that's all I use.

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Nov 6, 2013 20:01:07 GMT -5 toledo said:

Nov 6, 2013 20:00:26 GMT -5 @misoangry said:

Prepare to weep at the answers.  LOL.

JAMES' 4EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lazy.

Efficient.

[blueshirt2003]

My son is James and we use James'.

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Nov 6, 2013 20:02:28 GMT -5 toledo said:

Nov 6, 2013 20:01:38 GMT -5 @misoangry said:

Efficient.

I think YOU mean efficien.

Eff.

[KKD]

As if it weren't annoying enough to deal with the big James/little James confusion, now I have to worry about this too?

I'm with toledo and think/know it should be James's, but H just came home and told me to change it to James' because everyone else would think I'm wrong. (And considering he's had the name for 34 years, he would know, right?)

[sonrisa]

I predict Miso will be on the vanguard in 20 years when some style guide decides it's okay to use "who" as a direct object rather than "whom."

[Glitter Tits]

Toledo'ses'

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Nov 6, 2013 20:07:18 GMT -5 sonrisa said:

I predict Miso will be on the vanguard in 20 years when some style guide decides it's okay to use "who" as a direct object rather than "whom."

No fucking way.

Not analogous in the least.

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Nov 6, 2013 20:18:17 GMT -5 toledo said:

Nov 6, 2013 20:17:08 GMT -5 @misoangry said:

No fucking way.

Not analogous in the least.

It's just as lazy. And just as incorrect.

It really isn't, and you know it.

[wrathofkuus]

James' makes me angry.

[rugbywife]

Nov 6, 2013 19:58:09 GMT -5 fuckyourcouch said:

Both are ALLEGEDLY correct, but James' will always be correct to me.

This is me too.

[wrathofkuus]

This kind of living language bs is what got the Oxford comma the boot.

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Nov 6, 2013 20:24:03 GMT -5 wrathofkuus said:

This kind of living language bs is what got the Oxford comma the boot.

But the Oxford comma is still around.

I like the Oxford comma.

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Nov 6, 2013 20:25:33 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

I don't believe in living language. I believe in whatever I learned in the late 80s. That is static. lol

PLUTO IS A PLANET, DAMNIT.

[sonrisa]

Nov 6, 2013 20:17:08 GMT -5 @misoangry said:

Nov 6, 2013 20:07:18 GMT -5 sonrisa said:

I predict Miso will be on the vanguard in 20 years when some style guide decides it's okay to use "who" as a direct object rather than "whom."

No fucking way.

Not analogous in the least.

lol. I knew that would get to you ;-) A little sarcasm goes a long way. 

[underwaterrhymes]

I'm in the James's camp.

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Nov 6, 2013 20:07:26 GMT -5 toledo said:

Nov 6, 2013 20:05:06 GMT -5 KKD said:

As if it weren't annoying enough to deal with the big James/little James confusion, now I have to worry about this too?

I'm with toledo and think/know it should be James's, but H just came home and told me to change it to James' because everyone else would think I'm wrong. (And considering he's had the name for 34 years, he would know, right?)

As we can see here, having a name that ends in S does not mean that you understand the grammar involved in making yourself possessive. He's wrong. Stand your ground.

i HATE hate hate hate hate when names that end with S are deprived of their rightful plural form.  s's FOR LYFE.

i don't care if the form of s' is permissible.  "alot" is in the dictionary too. that doesn't make it correct.

[estrellita]

My H's name is Ross. I usually type "Ross's". But that's different from James I think. "Ross's" sounds correct but how I'd say "James's" sounds weird to me, but I still think that's how I'd say it. I guess I don't say it that often, haha.

[KKD]

Nov 6, 2013 20:43:21 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

Nov 6, 2013 20:03:09 GMT -5 everyjuan said:

I type James's but say James.

I think I type James' more often but say "James's" more often.

KKD, call him Jamie like we plan to do if we have a boy. Then you avoid the problem.

Ha, H and I have already gone through the possibilities. Baby/little/young James it is! 

Nov 6, 2013 21:04:48 GMT -5 estrellita said:

My H's name is Ross. I usually type "Ross's". But that's different from James I think. "Ross's" sounds correct but how I'd say "James's" sounds weird to me, but I still think that's how I'd say it. I guess I don't say it that often, haha.

I definitely say James's. Because otherwise it would sound like, "Bring me James blanket," which is just plain dumb.

[mcmel]

James's all the way.

[Deleted]

The Oxford comma serves a purpose. Whom serves a purpose. The extra S serves no purpose.

Did you see e-mail is now officially email? And by officially, I mean the NYT.

[youbetcha]

First of all, all you guys need to stop basing this off how it "sounds." Grammar is not about sound!

I said this last time, but I'm AP all the way. In AP Style, not even Jesus gets an extra S!

[Doggy Mommy]

Nov 6, 2013 21:29:22 GMT -5 KKD said:

Nov 6, 2013 20:43:21 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

I think I type James' more often but say "James's" more often.

KKD, call him Jamie like we plan to do if we have a boy. Then you avoid the problem.

Ha, H and I have already gone through the possibilities. Baby/little/young James it is! 

Nov 6, 2013 21:04:48 GMT -5 estrellita said:

My H's name is Ross. I usually type "Ross's". But that's different from James I think. "Ross's" sounds correct but how I'd say "James's" sounds weird to me, but I still think that's how I'd say it. I guess I don't say it that often, haha.

I definitely say James's. Because otherwise it would sound like, "Bring me James blanket," which is just plain dumb.

No. James' and James's are pronounced the same way.

[Gato]

Both are technically correct but I will always edit to James's.  The other way looks too much like the plural possessive.

[sonrisa]

Nov 6, 2013 21:33:12 GMT -5 elle said:

The Oxford comma serves a purpose. Whom serves a purpose. The extra S serves no purpose.

It let's you know the root word or name is singular, not plural. That's a purpose.