"Clive D. W. Feather" wrote in message ...
In article , Mrs Redboots
writes
Er - hello? The OP was entirely correct in his usage of the
apostrophe there - if you have a name ending with "S", and wish to
denote something belonging to the bearer of that name, the
apostrophe goes after it. James' shoes, Thomas' gloves.....
Er, no. James's, Thomas's. Go and read Eats, Shoots & Leaves again.

Agreed - it's Giles's.

But no-one says St Giles's Circus. If Ms Truss was being properly
descriptive, she would state that words ending in an "s" are a bloody
mess when it comes to possessives. The one thing which everyone agrees
must be avoided is the "Jame's" style punctuation.