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We haven't done the possessive pronoun 'its' yet!

That will get interesting Rambler
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Yes, Bullfrog, that's the obvious thing to do, but it's certainly awkward in conversation. You'd usually say something like "Whose team is better, Georgetown's or St. John's", and you can see the inconsistency. You should actually say St. John's's, I think.

By the way, there actually is a St. John's University with a great basketball team (in the Big East, along with Georgetown) and I often see this irritating apostrophe use in sports columns.

Or "Which team is better, Georgetown or St. James?"

Sorry, St John

I go past this fine building every day and it still looks wrong...
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02051/newcastle_2051468c.jpg
hope the link works !

It does look wrong, but what a lovely building. Is it one of Inigo Jones's? Or is that Jones'? :)

It IS wrong, bbm - St. James' (blah) belongs to more than one St. Jame