Require Grammar SS

[c9]

"I own over 300 CDs" or "I own over 300 CD's" ?

Explain your answer.

Comments

[purplemartini.livejournal.com]

Here's a good one for you. If car belongs to the Steeves family do you write "this is the Steeves' car?" or "this is the Steeves's Car?" or even more rediculously "this is the Steeveses car?"

It's my damn name and I don't know how to do the plural possessive!

[c9.livejournal.com]

Steeves' Car: one family, one car.
Steeveses' Car: two families sharing ownership of one car.

:)

[cap-hill-latte.livejournal.com]

That was actually the question posed in an article of last month's Atlantic. Apparently, the correct answer is "Steeves's" unless the word following it begins with an s". But I think that looks silly, so I vote "Steeves'".

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

I always use "Steeves's". The apostrophe dangling at the end of "Steeves'" makes me nervous.