"Michael Noakes" <noakes_m@hotmail.com> wrote:
But suddenly dozens of Ryuta Uehara's and Sayuri's
Ueharas and Sayuris
You think? I didn't like the way that looked, and sticking the 's' at the
end could lead to the possible confusion that that's how you spell the name.
Yep, I'm sure. Apostrophe-s is only used for:
1) Possessives: "Kasumi, those aren't my clothes; they're Sayuri's!"
2) Contraction for "is": "Don't worry, Hiroshi. Uehara's a wuss."
Sticking in an apostrophe for a plural is a common mistake, but it's
wrong. As for confusion, well, yeah, but that's just the way it is. It's
only our knowledge of American names that tells us that "Jones" is
singular and "Joneses" is plural.
Gary Kleppe
http://www.execpc.com/~kleppe/comics.html