Editing Apostrophe (section)

===== With other punctuation; compounds with pronouns =====

If the word or compound includes, or ends with, a punctuation mark, an apostrophe and an ''s'' are still added in the usual way: "[[Westward Ho!]]'s railway station"; "''Awaye!''{{'}}s Paulette Whitten recorded Bob Wilson's story";<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/rn/awaye/index/subjects_Music_2007.htm |title=''Awaye!'' |website=abc.net.au }}{{dead link|date=May 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=[[The Chicago Manual of Style]] |chapter=§7.18}}</ref> ''Washington, D.C.'s museums''.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Gregg Reference Manual |edition=10th |date=2005 |chapter=paragraph 641}}</ref> (assuming that the prevailing style requires full stops in ''D.C.'').
*If the word or compound already includes a possessive apostrophe, a double possessive results: ''Tom's sisters' careers''; ''the head of marketing's husband's preference''; ''the [[Fox hunting|master of foxhounds']] best dog's death''. Many style guides, while allowing that these constructions are possible, advise rephrasing: ''the head of marketing's husband prefers that&nbsp;...''. If an original apostrophe or apostrophe with ''s'' occurs at the end, it is left by itself to serve both purposes: ''Our employees are better paid than McDonald's employees''; ''Standard & Poor's indices are widely used'': the fixed forms of ''[[McDonald's]]'' and ''[[Standard & Poor's]]'' already include possessive apostrophes. For similar cases involving geographical names, see [[#Possessives in geographic names|below]].
* Similarly, the possessives of all phrases whose wording is fixed are formed in the same way:
**"[[Us and Them (song)|Us and Them]]{{" '}}s inclusion on the album ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon]]''
**[[You Am I]]'s latest CD
**[[The 69'ers]]' drummer, Tom Callaghan (only the second apostrophe is possessive)
** ''[[His 'n' Hers]]''<nowiki />'s first track is called "Joyriders".{{NoteTag|This is standard even though the possessive word ''hers'' is usually spelled without an apostrophe; see below in this section.}}
** Was ''[[She (novel)|She]]''{{'s}} success greater, or ''[[King Solomon's Mines]]''{{'s}}?{{NoteTag|Most sources are against continuing the [[italics]] used in such titles to the apostrophe and the ''s''.}}
:For complications with foreign phrases and titles, see [[#Nouns ending with silent s, x, or z|below]].