Mon Nov 20, 2017 6:49 pm
#1572750
As far as I remember ODWE - the Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors - has Achilles' heel and Achilles tendon, the latter usage being in accord with PS's thinking. (But I don't have my copy to hand.)
Convention, at least as far as Hart's Rules (the old Oxford University Press authority on such matters) is concerned, is that all names from antiquity that end in s use s' for possessive, never s's -- hence Socrates', Xerxes', Pythagoras', Menelaus', Darius', Jesus', etc.
Convention, at least as far as Hart's Rules (the old Oxford University Press authority on such matters) is concerned, is that all names from antiquity that end in s use s' for possessive, never s's -- hence Socrates', Xerxes', Pythagoras', Menelaus', Darius', Jesus', etc.
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