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Comment by Janiece Young on April 21, 2013 at 7:52

Thanks, Christi.  :)

Comment by Christi Massey on April 21, 2013 at 7:50

A.  No need to cap "the."  :)

Comment by Janiece Young on April 21, 2013 at 7:45

I'm working on my first court transcript.  Would you capitalize "The Court" here?

Which is correct, choice A or B?

Thanks!

A)  THE COURT: You wanted to address the Court?

B)  THE COURT: You wanted to address The Court?

Comment by Janiece Young on April 10, 2013 at 9:16

Hi, Janet, and it's a video!!!

Comment by Janet on April 10, 2013 at 9:13

Yuck, Janiece!  What you have looks fine. It's not going to be pretty no matter what you do.

Comment by Janiece Young on April 10, 2013 at 7:40

How would you punctuate this???

A.  And these are done in August. So I'm presuming that Mr. Butler told Ms. Duran -- did she do this? Yeah.
-- told Ms. Duran that she -- he had a driving violation --
Q. And --
A. -- but I did not ask her that specifically. I'm making a presumption (indicating).

Comment by LeAnne Law on April 4, 2013 at 17:19

You're right, Joyce.  I didn't read Angela's question closely enough.  Definitely Specialist's or Specialists', never Specialists's. 

Comment by Joyce Davis on April 4, 2013 at 17:01

The possessive 's, Morson has something to say about it.  Check her out.

On something like Kinston Medical Specialists records, it's unlikely you'll hear Specialists's, but I suppose it's possible.

Specialists is similar to Moses and Joneses...last syllable ends in S.  The usual way to show possessive on such words is Moses'  Joneses'  Specialists'

As in: Moses' leadership was critical.

The Joneses' house is beautiful.

etc.

Comment by LeAnne Law on April 3, 2013 at 12:45

I was taught that if you hear the s's, put the s's.  If you don't, put s'.  From what I understand, both are correct.  I prefer just s', so it's got to be a pretty distinct double S that I hear before I'll write s's. 

Comment by Joyce Davis on March 11, 2013 at 23:47

OWCATS strikes again.  I doubt there is a right way to handle something like this.

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