In my native language, Norwegian, one uses hyphens when stating two or more copulated compound words that has common parts (words). In a thesis I'm working on, should I write
test specimens, test setups and test results
or could I write (like in Norwegian)
test specimens, -setups and -results?
According to my grammar book, but at variance to the answer to this question, the correct singular possessive if a word ends in 's' is:
James's car
The grammar book allows exceptions for historical nouns, so the examples in the answer to the above-linked question would pass muster.
However...
Many questions already ask about this topic (What is the correct possessive for nouns ending in s? , Adding apostrophe-s to a singular noun already ending in “s”, etc.) and their answers vary, but they always give exceptions to the apostrophe-s rule, for example:
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