OSNews is Exploring the Future of Computing

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 2nd Sep 2008 16:38 UTC

"One of the most frequently used Cocoa classes is NSImage which, as the name suggests, is all about displaying and manipulating image data. The imageNamed: method of this class retrieves an image reference for you - provided that you know the name of the image you're after. Many of the images that can be retrieved via the imageNamed: method have well documented names, but there's a lot of stuff in there that's not well-known. It's those images - including some for Windows - that I'll be digging into here. I shall also give you source code to a little utility that uses an entirely different mechanism to retrieve images used by OS X."

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RE: Where's the 's'?

by Thom_Holwerda on Wed 3rd Sep 2008 09:41 UTC in reply to "Where's the 's'?"

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I've been taught in school, as well as at university where I actually study English, that both are correct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Possessive_apostrophe

More specifically:

"If a singular noun ends with an /s/ or a /z/ sound (spelled with -s, -se, -z, -ce, for example), practice varies as to whether to add 's or the apostrophe alone. In general, a good practice is to follow whichever spoken form is judged better: the boss's shoes, Mrs Jones' hat (or Mrs Jones's hat, if that spoken form is preferred). In many cases, both spoken and written forms differ between writers."

The 'x' is an /s/ sound, and as such, it is okay to omit the 's'.

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