About possessive proper nouns....

[gryphonrhi]

Interestingly, the grammar rules at Purdue Online Writing Lab say that the proper possessive form of James is James's.  Except that when I was in school, I was taught that if a noun ends in an s or z sound, the correct form was to put an apostrophe after the s/z, as you do with a  plural noun.  As you might expect, I'm at the point where neither Ramirez' nor Ramirez's looks right  because I've been staring too long.  Advice, help, sources...?
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