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pwhodges:
I have always used "Hodges's", writing it the same way as I say it. if Jeph wants it changed he will tell me or (more likely) just do it.

I will also cite The Oxford Guide to Style (formerly Hart's Rules) which says:

--- Quote ---Use 's after non-classical or non-classicizing personal names ending in an s or z sound:

Charles's    Marx's           Dickens's    Leibnitz's
Onassis's    Zacharias's    Collins's      Tobias's
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--- Quote from: Zebediah on 23 Sep 2014, 11:31 ---At some point in the last 30 years the standard for forming the possessive of a word ending in "s" appears to have changed from "s' " to "s's".
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The rule has never been that simple - it takes up three pages in the cited work.

jeph:

--- Quote from: ankhtahr on 18 Sep 2014, 05:08 ---The only thing bothering me is that there's far less dialogue in the new format. There often used to be multiple replies in a single panel, now it's usually just one. And the text is shorter.

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that's just me getting better at writing

SteveCostello:
On thing that may help on the format front... instead of the comic image being one giant panel, each frame gets its own container. Then, depending on screen size, the comic frames either go 2 x2 like they are now, or for smaller screens, get stacked in a 1 x 4. All of this is relatively easy to do with a bit o' CSS targeted at a few different screen size breakpoints using media queries.

Just a thought from a web geek.

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