A tiny little apostrophe question

Why not look up if there's a preferred style guide for astronomy? If there is, I'm sure the question has been covered...

So maybe consult the CSE or ACS style guides.

A quick search of the Saturn V rocket and how it was written about may help. It is referred to as the Saturn V. When referring to multiple Saturn V rockets it's: Saturn Vs. The cancelled Saturn Vs. When referring to something belonging to the rocket it's: Saturn V's. The Saturn V's fuel economy.
 
Um. I read it as Ferran-vees not Ferran-fives.

Also, is this the first first mention of the planety thing? As long as you've written Ferran-V somewhere in the prose already, Ferran-Vs is much less ugly than Ferran-V's.
 
I realized that it was Ferran-Five. Do you mention any of the other satellites I, II, III, and IV in the story, so that readers will know that it's a roman numeral?

Anyway, since it is a number rather than a letter, shouldn't we be looking at the rules for numbers, in case it's different than the rule for letters?

Or should we even bother, because the answer is obvious (though not to me)?
 
TheDustyZebra said:
I can only come up with two different ways for Kare, without sending him to a foreign country. I seem to use both of them interchangeably, and I have no idea which one you intended. :)
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(when springs first said 'Kare' I went 'huh??' -- it sounded to me like "cur", but I think that was the Belfast accent she mentioned... ;) )
 
Glisterspeck said:
Um. I read it as Ferran-vees not Ferran-fives.

Also, is this the first first mention of the planety thing? As long as you've written Ferran-V somewhere in the prose already, Ferran-Vs is much less ugly than Ferran-V's.
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No, it's mentioned before, enough the reader will know the system at least, I think.

Teresa Edgerton said:
I realized that it was Ferran-Five. Do you mention any of the other satellites I, II, III, and IV in the story, so that readers will know that it's a roman numeral?
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Um... Consults notes. Nope. :eek: I do have some scenes on Ferran itself and could easily slip a mention in. Darn, I will crack this world building one day.


Hex said:
(when springs first said 'Kare' I went 'huh??' -- it sounded to me like "cur", but I think that was the Belfast accent she mentioned... ;) )
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See, that's the third pronounciation and, of course, the correct one. Currrrrr. That's the one. :D

Culchies in space! You can all go google that one - except Alc and Sevenstars, who are the living embodiment. :p :D
 
springs said:
Culchies in space! You can all go google that one - except Alc and Sevenstars, who are the living embodiment. :p :D
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Just as soon as I recharge my phone from the tractor's PTO shaft ...

(I'll out-culchie any of ye, any day)
 
Yes, stick it in a box somewhere and save it for something where it will be more appreciated.
 
apocryphal Suess

There once was an apostrophe
That didn't know what to do with V
For when the V had plural-icy
It thought it looked possessively
and that could mean catastrophe.
 
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