Stupid question

[oggbashan]

Although you can use accents on Literotica, bear in mind that some reading devices do not like them and can show a random character instead. That can confuse the reader.

 

[SimonDoom]

It's "James' voice," or "James' cell phone." Of course people will say James's, speaking. The second is right in how people generally speak, used to adding an "s" in reference to speaking of a person by names property or attribute. Renee can be written either or, as well, and accent marks can indeed be found in the english language, such as a Cul-De-Sac, or one of my family members name; Lavonté.

The more widely accepted American convention is "James's voice" not "James' voice."

The Chicago Manual of style section 7.16 endorses the apostrophe s view.

Strunk & White is dogmatic on this point. In fact, it's Rule No. 1 in the book.

Some grammar/writing guides say you can drop the "s" for a singular noun ending in "s" if it would made pronunciation awkward. This usually is the case where there's a vowel before the "s" that is pronounced. In this view the right answer would be:

Moses' sandals.

But

James's voice.

Benjamin Dreyer, the chief copy editor of Random House, and author of a great recent style guide called Dreyer's English, is all in favor of the apostrophe s way of doing things for singular proper nouns ending in "s."

So:

Dickens's novels.

That's how he does it.

It's how I do it, because to me it seems more logical and more consistent, and therefore easier to do and less likely to be misunderstood.