[oarsinsync]

When a word ends with an s, the use of an apostrophe without another s is valid English.

Thomas’ and Thomas’s are the same thing.

[Caligatio]

I actually had to look this up, it depends if the possessive form is actually said with one or two Ss. For instance, it's Jones's and Bridges'.

https://grammar.collinsdictionary.com/easy-learning/what-are... https://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/punctuation/apostrophe/...

[iraqmtpizza]

lol no. arguably the word ain't is more proper English than Chris' or boss'

[TheRealPomax]

It is trivial to find more than sufficiently authoritative source that cover the rules that make "Chris'" and "boss'" perfectly value contracted possessives in English. [1]

However, it's English: there isn't just one rule, another rule can also be valid and might be the one you're familiar with on a day to day basis. That doesn't mean any other way to say or write the same thing is wrong, it's just a pattern you never saw. Like someone going "lol snuck isn't a real word, it's sneaked!" and then you hand them a dictionary and they learn something new about their own language.

[1] https://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/media_wysiwyg/Univer...

[AlecSchueler]

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[vundercind]

You pronounce both of your examples with two S phonemes at the end. Putting that in the written form is absolutely Ok.

[thaumasiotes]

> You pronounce both of your examples with two S phonemes at the end.

Um... what? Pronouncing a possessive suffix with /səs/ isn't valid anywhere. The only possibility is /səz/. Same goes for the plural suffix.

[swores]

Being confident doesn't change the fact that you're misinformed about English grammar.

[AlecSchueler]

Lol yes though?