Possessive of a name that ends in X

[DAVID IBBETSON <ibbetson -at- IDIRECT -dot- COM>]

Sigrid Schoepel asks:
>How would you punctuate a name that ends in X to make it possessive?

>Ajax'
>Ajax's

>We've looked in The New York Public Library Writer's Guide (nothing =
>close) and Chicago (6.19-6.20). We are still wondering, can anyone help?


Since I would pronounce it Ajaxes I would write it Ajax's. (People, if any,
who would say "Ajax book" would use the form Ajax'.)

David (the idiot) Ibbetson

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