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The posssessive of a possessive

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February 14, 2009, 19:34
shufitz
The posssessive of a possessive
How do you make the possessive of a possessive? Where do you put the apostrophe(s)?

Thursday's Wall Street Journal used a possessive as a name:But then it tried to make the possessive of that name: What combination of punctuation and s-letters goes at the question marks?
February 14, 2009, 20:04
jerry thomas
 My way is Pilgrim's's.


What's yours ?
February 14, 2009, 20:05
<Asa Lovejoy>
Why not just Pilgrim's? Wont the single possessive do double duty?
February 15, 2009, 01:20
arnie
I agree with Asa: Pilgrim's. However, the best answer is to recast the sentence.


Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
February 18, 2009, 18:53
Kalleh
I think it has to be pilgrim's's or pilgrim's', were you not to rewrite the sentence. Rewriting the sentence is what I had originally suggested to Shu, and he said that wasn't his question.