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Ursprungligen postat av dMoberg
Där ser man. Gäller andra regler för vanliga substantiv?
Ja, delvis. Åtminstone tror jag att man enbart skriver t.ex.
bus’s – eller skulle skriva det om man inte använde
of-genitiv (
of the bus).
I övrigt säger den stora Cambridge-grammatiken (18.4.2) så här: ”The bare genitive [med bara apostrof] is obligatory with plural nouns ending in s [...] Nouns like
species which have identical singular and plural forms with final
s take a bare genitive in the singular as well as the plural, and in writing this will apply to nouns like
chassis too [...] The bara genitive is likewise the only possibility in more or less fixed phrases with
sake:
for goodness’/convenience’ sake” [...]
An optional bara genitive is found in certain types of proper names [alltså det som tråden ursprungligen handlade om], where it is more likely in writing than in speech, in formal style than in informal. There is a good deal of variation here and it is not possible to give hard and fast rules. The bare genitive is most widely used with classical, religious, and literary names [...] Elsewhere it is normally restricted to names pronounced with /z/ rather than voiceless /s/”
