User name change

[Irenaeus' Vagina]

Someone commented a long time ago that my user name is supposed to have an 's' after the apostrophe. I'm not a grammaticist but I suppose it needs one.

 

[†††]

I'd simply double down on the bad grammar and change Vagina to Vagene, leave everything else as is.

 

[OSK]

Someone commented a long time ago that my user name is supposed to have an 's' after the apostrophe. I'm not a grammaticist but I suppose it needs one.

Both forms are acceptable.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

I found a useful page on this here:

http://sussex.ac.uk/informatics/punctuation/apostrophe/possessives

a name ending in s takes only an apostrophe if the possessive form is not pronounced with an extra s. Hence:

Socrates' philosophy
Saint Saens' music
Ulysses' companions
Aristophanes' plays
Same reason: we don't say *Ulysses's companions, and so we don't write the extra s.

So it is Irenaeus' Vagina that is correct, not Irenaeus's Vagina

 

[someone else]

There are many Irenaeuses (III is ignoring me), so maybe change to vaginas.