his genitive
...that the his genitive was a briefly lived form for possessive nouns in the 17th century and may have given rise to the use of the apostrophe for genitives in Modern English?
...that the <b id="mwCsI"><a href="./His_genitive" id="mwCsM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="His genitive">his genitive</a></b> was a briefly lived form for <a href="./Possession_(linguistics)" id="mwCsQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Possession (linguistics)">possessive nouns</a> in the 17th century and may have given rise to the use of the <a href="./Apostrophe" id="mwCsU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Apostrophe">apostrophe</a> for <a href="./Genitive_case" id="mwCsY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Genitive case">genitives</a> in <a href="./Modern_English" id="mwCsc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Modern English">Modern English</a>?