Timeline for Marine Corps Possessive
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| Jun 25, 2014 at 12:42 | comment | added | KnightHawk0811 | While the omission of the added 's' does sometimes result in that 's' not being pronounced, that does not necessarily hold true all of the time. Since they are both technically correct it is still a matter of preference to both the writer and the reader. We are then left with possibilities that Corps'/Corps's can be mispronounced as either 'core' or 'corpses' (I have indeed heard both); I believe the former is most preferable. | |
| Jun 25, 2014 at 3:49 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | Thank you for answering. I do not mean to disrespect your service in any way, and I respect your experience with seeing both spellings written in formal documents relating to your Corps. But I believe that if you spell it Marine Corps’ without an s at the end, then it must be pronounced the same as Marine Corps itself is, since that apostrophe is mere punctuation, not a letter that can carry sound. That leads to creating a homophone with core rather than one with cores, which is how the possessive is said. Adding an apostrophe does not “unsilence” a silent-s. Just ask Camus. :) | |
| Jun 25, 2014 at 2:56 | vote | accept | Will Pike | ||
| Jun 25, 2014 at 2:54 | history | answered | KnightHawk0811 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |