Nice and interesting question...

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I have always written it as Lois's, because I was always taught that even if a word ends in an "s" that you would still add an "'s" to it
Really? I, on the other had, was taught that you always place an 's, except if the word ends in s, when you only put an apostrophe.

The thing is, that when I send a story at the Archive, my GE said, among the other corrections, that "Lois's" is correct and not "Lois'". "When the word is in the SINGULAR," he said, "you do add an s. You do not add one only if it is in the PLURAL."

Given the fact that all of my teachers are Greek and my GE is... I think from the USA, (well... at least I know for sure he is a native English speaker), I assume that he is right.

So, I vote for Lois's.

AnnaBtG.

What we've got here is failure to communicate...