Nov 28, 2019 · On the use of so-called 'zero genitive', marked by a simple apostrophe in spelling ('), as opposed to the 's genitive, Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech and Svartvik specify in A Comprehensive grammar of the English Language (pp. 320 & 321) that:

Jul 1, 2019 · Both express possession, of course. We use 's with singular nouns.For example, "my son's toys" will be "the toys that belong to my son".

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Feb 23, 2023 · 但2017年6月，德国最新的正字法承认了大写ß的使用，也就是说自那时起，大写ß和SS的写法都是合法的。感兴趣可以自己去查阅。（我手机还打不出大写的ß所以直接用中文表示。） 另外在瑞士标准德语中是没有ß这个字母的，所有的ß无论大小写都被写成ss。

Always pronounce the "possessive 's" unless that would be a real tongue-twister. So if a man with two mistresses wanted to speak of things he'd given to both of them, I'd advise him to drop the 's, rather than try to pronounce mistresses's with a straight face!

Mar 3, 2025 · 芝奇、金士顿、海盗船、威刚这些内部颗粒太乱了，不同频率时序用的颗粒可能就不一样，甚至同一时序频率，不同批次的内存颗粒也不一样，所以不能保证你买到的就和我查的一样。

Nov 27, 2022 · I've been hearing some British and Irish actors and presenters pronounce ss like s instead of sh, so tissue sounds like tisyu rather than tishu for example. I also heard someone pronounce appreSEEate instead of appreSHEEate. Now, I couldn't find much online about this apart from someone saying it's received English, but not much else.

Sep 11, 2023 · with two Ss. with two S's. with two s's. Ability to format permitting, and font suitably different between italic and roman, you could also italicise the first S to signify mention over use. with two S s (Note extra space above due to how the formatting here works, not intended).

Jul 29, 2014 · Possess and its derivatives are another exception; the middle "ss" is voiced to /z/. The terminating "ss" is not. Other miscellaneous exceptions: The -ss- in the American state name Missouri is also exceptionally pronounced /z/. In raspberry, the p is silent and the [s] assimilates to the /b/, so is voiced to /z/.

Wayne Gretzky appears to be the earliest attributed source of this particular expression, although two older sports-related expression say much the same thing: "You can't score if you don't shoot" and "You can't hit the ball if you don't swing."