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X apostrophe ?

Headline from the New York Times web site:
"White Sox¹ Buehrle Pitches Perfect Game"
From which I deduce the Times thinks the x in Sox takes an apostrophe to form the plural possessive.
I wonder how think it should be pronounced - "sockses" ?

Any thoughts?

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[nq:1]Headline from the New York Times web site: "White Sox¹ Buehrle Pitches Perfect Game" From which I deduce the Times ... an apostrophe to form the plural possessive. I wonder how think it should be pronounced - "sockses" ?

  • [nq:1]Headline from the New York Times web site: "White Sox¹ Buehrle Pitches Perfect Game" From which I deduce the Times ...
  • an apostrophe to form the plural possessive.
  • I wonder how think it should be pronounced - "sockses" ?
  • [/nq] I don't like the practice of putting an apostrophe only after singular words that end in S on an S-sound to represent the possessive.
  • Triply so if people are expected to say sockses, because then the spelling doesn't match the pronunciation, and afaic, the whole origin of writing was to record words spoken or words one hears in his head, which are a lot like what is spoken.
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[nq:1]Headline from the New York Times web site: "White Sox¹ Buehrle Pitches Perfect Game" From which I deduce the Times ... an apostrophe to form the plural possessive. I wonder how think it should be pronounced - "sockses" ? Any thoughts?[/nq]
I don't like the practice of putting an apostrophe only after singular words that end in S on an S-sound to represent the possessive. Triply so if peo
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[nq:1]Headline from the New York Times web site: "White Sox¹ Buehrle Pitches Perfect Game" From which I deduce the Times ... an apostrophe to form the plural possessive. I wonder how think it should be pronounced - "sockses" ? Any thoughts?[/nq]
It is exactly the same as would be "White Socks' Buehrle".

Cordially,
Eric Walker, Owlcroft House
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Eric Walker filted:
[nq:2]Headline from the New York Times web site: "White Sox¹ ... think it should be pronounced - "sockses" ? Any thoughts?[/nq]
[nq:1]It is exactly the same as would be "White Socks' Buehrle".[/nq]
Is Buehrle a White Sox or a White Sock?...r

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An optometrist asks whether you see the glass
more full like this?
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[nq:1]Headline from the New York Times web site: "White Sox¹ Buehrle Pitches Perfect Game" From which I deduce the Times ... an apostrophe to form the plural possessive. I wonder how think it should be pronounced - "sockses" ? Any thoughts?[/nq]
Whatever you're doing to make your text intelligible still isn't entirely working. The salient term in your post looks like Sox followed by a superscr
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[nq:2]Headline from the New York Times web site: "White Sox¹ ... think it should be pronounced - "sockses" ? Any thoughts?[/nq]
[nq:1]Whatever you're doing to make your text intelligible still isn't entirely working. The salient term in your post looks like Sox followed by a superscript 1, which makes it trickier than it need be to understand your point.[/nq]
I can only apologize, again. I
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[nq:2]Whatever you're doing to make your text intelligible still isn't ... it trickier than it need be to understand your point.[/nq]
[nq:1]I can only apologize, again. It's clear that the problem is linked to copying and pasting from certain sites - ... one of them. And yet, when you quoted me, the superscript 1 showed up as an apostrophe in my newsreader...[/nq]
Go, as they are fond of s
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[nq:1]Out of interest, I copied a sentence from the current NYT and reproduce it below, first pasted directly and second ... fish from jungle lakes and rivers have been a staple of the Kamayurá diet, the tribe's primary source of protein.[/nq]
Those are identical in my newsreader.

Peter Duncanson, UK
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[nq:2]Whatever you're doing to make your text intelligible still isn't ... it trickier than it need be to understand your point.[/nq]
[nq:1]I can only apologize, again. It's clear that the problem is linked to copying and pasting from certain sites - ... one of them. And yet, when you quoted me, the superscript 1 showed up as an apostrophe in my newsreader...[/nq]
The Mac moves in a myster
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[nq:1]Eric Walker filted:[/nq]
[nq:2]It is exactly the same as would be "White Socks' Buehrle".[/nq]
[nq:1]Is Buehrle a White Sox or a White Sock?...r[/nq]
A question interesting but here irrelevant: the name of the team is simply a cute spelling of "White Socks".
I don't believe I have ever heard the term (or its analogues, such as Red Sox) used in a noun sense for an individual.
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[nq:2]I can only apologize, again. It's clear that the problem ... superscript 1 showed up as an apostrophe in my newsreader...[/nq]
[nq:1]The Mac moves in a mysterious way... I suggested before that you try switching MIME on; as it says on ... and other news clients will be able to decode and display the article properly." It's worth a try, I think.[/nq]
I just switched it on. Here's a te

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