Do you just pronounce it like “Travises” like we do colloquially? Or is there some way to do it.
There’s a linguistics professor at MIT who I once heard say in a class (an Open Courseware class… I didn’t attend MIT or anything):
“We’ll speak no more of prescriptive linguistics except to mock it.”
However you want to say it, say it. Your particular style of speech is unique and beautiful and you should keep speaking that way.
I personally would pronounce it like “Travises”. As if pluralizing it. (“There are multiple Travises in the phone book.”) Makes it fairly clear. I guess that brings up the question what to do if there are multiple Travises who co-own something. “The Travises’ shared given name.” I think off the top of my head, I’d probably pronounce it like “Traviseses.” Cool!
Recursive Travii
Travodes
I would, at the least, desire to egg that MIT prof’s house. Language is about communication, and if everyone has their own rules there can be no communication. If you spell it Travis’ I’ll be asking you what a Travi is.
Travissiz
Okay, so, first: It should also be written “Travis’s”.
Only if it is plural do you put the possessive apostrophe last.
To make any word possessive that ends with s you put the apostrophe after the s. So Travis’ is the correct way to say something like, “Travis’ shoes were muddy.”
Only for plural nouns, IMO.
It’s a good rule of thumb, but it’s not a requirement.
avoid altogether. [object] belongs to Travis
I pronounce it like “Trav-is-his”
That was an excellent execution
I just say it the way it is - ‘Oh that is Travis’ shoe’
I added the apostrophe for writing it, but I don’t say the name any different.
Oh Trav-ee.
I heard Travi are fun guys.
Travisis
The singular possessive is pronounced “travises.” It’s spelled Travis’s.
If you think I misspelled that, please review page 1 of Strunk & White’s The Elements of Style. The use of an s after an apostrophe does not depend on the letter preceding the apostrophe. Rather, the lack of an s after an apostrophe denotes a plural possessive.
Whether there’s an s after the apostrophe depends on style guide. Most do recommend using the s, though.
And I am declaring a certain one of those style guides to be correct!
