To settle a question about whether the possessive of Jesus is preferred as Jesus' or Jesus's, I'm trying to search my Logos library.
I can find Jesus's , but how do I get a count for Jesus' ?
To settle a question about whether the possessive of Jesus is preferred as Jesus' or Jesus's, I'm trying to search my Logos library. I can find Jesus's , but how do I get a count for Jesus' ?
You can't, because Logos ignores punctuation in searches. Sorry.
You could do something like a comparison between "in Jesus' name" (2590 hits in my library) and "in Jesus's name" (52 hits).
Here are some discussions of it in various grammar and style guides: Strunk & White prefers Jesus'. The Chicago Manual of Style is ambivalent about it, seems to prefer Jesus's in some cases but not all. Here's another article about it. The AP Stylebook prefers Jesus' but then again it prefers dropping the extra s after the apostrophe on all possessives of words ending with s, whether they are plurals or classical names (like Jesus, Moses, Euripides -- usually exceptions that take the apostrophe only in everyone's book) or not.
... how do I get a count for Jesus' ? You could do something like a comparison between "in Jesus' name" (2590 hits in my library) and "in Jesus's name" (52 hits).
... how do I get a count for Jesus' ?
Thank you for an informative and thoughtful answer, Rosie. Appreciated.
For that particular phrase, your results are 98% in favor of omitting the final S.
(I was actually quite surprised to get 5,415 hits on Jesus's in my library.)
Wonder if phrase "in the name of Jesus" finds more results than "in Jesus' name" ?
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