[Discuss] english question

[Robert Baar]

> If you don't say it, for example when saying "That's Francois' pen" 
> ("That's Francois pen"), then just put in the apostrophe on its own. 
Well...as an american, I would pronounce Francois  differently in each 
of these examples.  The first would be pronounced "fran-swaz" and the 
second "fran-swa".  So I would be inclined to spell the possessive form 
of Francois as Francois's.  Although, I am sure like many things in the 
English language it really wouldn't matter which way you did it.  I was 
taught the apostrophe at the end was used *only* when the word was plural.