Re: Odd orthography)

Tommie Powell wrote:
> And of course we will have to get rid of the "Apostrophy-S" ('s) that we use
> to show possession, since it is a contraction of "his".  What should we
> replace that with?
Actually, it's not a contraction of "his", it's from the old English
-es, which was the masculine genetive singular ending, tho.  As for
replacing, the "of" phrase works well!
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