Three in a Row—No!
rogersgeorge on July 12th, 2019
Except for onomatopoetic words such as Hmmm and Hissss; and acronyms, such as IEEE (pronounced “I triple E”), English doesn’t allow three of the same letter in a row.
This isn’t usually a problem, except when you want to make a possessive form from a word that ends in “ss.” So the last panel has it wrong:
The rule: take the word you want to make possessive (be it singular or plural) and if it ends in “s,” put on an apostrophe and you’re done.
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