re: #419 Cato the Elder

Bull.

Socrates’ and Jesus’ are OK in writing because they’re classical or biblical. That’s pretty much the only valid exception. Otherwise, if you’re going to dinner at the house of your friend Jens, you’re going to Jens’s house.

Anyone who writes “Charles’” for “Charles’s” in the possessive is wrong. And as for pronunciation, if you actually say Charles instead of Charleses when trying to enunciate it as a possessive, you are excommunicated.

I go with Fowler, anyway, not this newfangled hip-hop English. And I mean the original Fowler. Screw Emory and the board he surfed in on.

Yeah, but how do you really feel?

Actually, I agree 100%. As opposed to the 110% that athletes, seemingly, are now required to give. How do they do that?