A bit of ranting about Ubuntu.com

[John]

Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> On di, 2006-02-07 at 13:34 +0800, John wrote:
> 
>>(Jeff's guides)
> 
> 
> Jeff isn't a guides :)
Please, don't confuse things with nonsense.
> ('s always indicates missing letters, Jeff's means Jeff is)
> 

Actually, the modern possessive Jeff's derives from the archaic "Jeff, 
his...". However, that form is all but forgotten and the apostrophe-ess 
denotes the possessive form, as distinct from "Jeffs" meaning more than 
one Jeff.