Recently the Los Angeles Times wrote that legendary funnyman Jack Benny “was a particular favorite of Johnny Carson’s.” That caught the eye of a reader named Rod, who asked: “When the writer says that ...

Some people will tell you that it’s fine to say “a friend of John” and that it’s also fine to say “John’s friend,” but “a friend of John’s” is another matter. “The double possessive is redundant and ...

A reader asks: How do we write the possessive form of names that end in s – for example, Davis's or Davis'? This is not only a long-standing area of disagreement and inconsistency among writing guides ...

It could go down in history as the Arkansas Apostrophe Act of 2007. Or maybe “Arkansas’s Apostrophe Act of 2007.” Last month, the Arkansas State Legislature passed a non-binding resolution declaring ...

Rep. Steve Harrelson, a Democrat in the Arkansas legislature, yesterday introduced a resolution to declare the correct way to write the possessive form of the state's name. That would be, he says, ...