Help Please! Showing possession with names

[Rachael Burnett]

I'd appreciate it if you could vote in this poll about showing possession with names.

Many thanks

Rachael

 

[Sedayne]

There's no option in the poll for 'can't decide'...

I'm sorry if it was me who kicked off the doubt about this.

New Hart's Rules suggests that Julius's is correct, but also that an apostrophe alone may be used in cases where an additional s would cause difficulty in pronunciation.

It would be easier to choose character names which don't end in s. But Julius is a great name for your leading man.

I expect other Litopians will be more decisive about this and tell you straight.

 

[Rachael Burnett]

There's no option in the poll for 'can't decide'...

I'm sorry if it was me who kicked off the doubt about this.

New Hart's Rules suggests that Julius's is correct, but also that an apostrophe alone may be used in cases where an additional s would cause difficulty in pronunciation.

It would be easier to choose character names which don't end in s. But Julius is a great name for your leading man.

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It was, but in a good way. To complicate matters, two books that I've been reading, one uses a and the other b. I'm interested to see overall what people think as both are acceptable, and I don't want to change Julius's/Julius' name (sorry).

 

[Sedayne]

It was, but in a good way. To complicate matters, two books that I've been reading, one uses a and the other b. I'm interested to see overall what people think as both are acceptable, and I don't want to change Julius's/Julius' name (sorry).

No, please don't change his name. I love it.

 

[Rachael Burnett]

@Sedayne I have added the option 'I can't decide'.

 

[Rachael Burnett]

No, please don't change his name. I love it.

I'm definitely not changing his name. For a long time he was called Grayson (or Gray as Lucia called him because it always seemed werewolfish to me), but when I changed all the other names a while back, it didn't seem to go. I do have a hard time remembering all their new names (I now have a spreadsheet). In my head most of them are their original names, and I haven't even done the final name changes for some of the characters. If it ever gets published and I'm interviewed, I will sound like I didn't write the book because I will be calling them all the wrong names.

 

[Sedayne]

I'm definitely not changing his name. For a long time he was called Grayson (or Gray as Lucia called him because it always seemed werewolfish to me), but when I changed all the other names a while back, it didn't seem to go. I do have a hard time remembering all their new names (I now have a spreadsheet). In my head most of them are their original names, and I haven't even done the final name changes for some of the characters. If it ever gets published and I'm interviewed, I will sound like I didn't write the book because I will be calling them all the wrong names.

You'll soon get used to them.

(For me, Neil was originally David in Forgotten Songs... but was Neil before I started the novel formerly known as The Superior Position... and won't be changed now.
AJ was originally Natasha, Vicky was Lisa, and Mike was spelled Meic. Wendy was Carol and then Shirley before she told me what her name really was.)

 

[Rachael Burnett]

You'll soon get used to them.

(For me, Neil was originally David in Forgotten Songs... but was Neil before I started the novel formerly known as The Superior Position... and won't be changed now.
AJ was originally Natasha, Vicky was Lisa, and Mike was spelled Meic. Wendy was Carol and then Shirley before she told me what her name really was.)

Neil is perfect. The spelling of Meic made me smile, but I can see why you changed it.