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Originally Posted by pdurrant
The number of syllables has nothing to do with it. It's whether the word ends with an S anyway.
James -> James'
Paul -> Paul's
Although some people will use 's, e.g. James -> James's.
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The convention of just using an apostrophe if the name ends in "s" seems much less common today than it was 30-odd years ago when I started writing. It seems to be much more common today to see "Dickens's work is considered to be..." rather than "Dickens' work...".