When referring to possessions of multiple people who don't share the same name, the standard, formal way to form the possessive is Jack ’s and Jill ’s pails. To remedy ambiguity or awkwardness in either speech or print, possessives can generally be recast using of: the tails of the dogs, the paths of St. both Dickens’ and Dickens’s as /ˈdɪkɪnzɪz/. Some speakers, however, may pronounce both as /ɪz/, i.e. The two suffixes may or may not be distinguished in pronunciation for example, the BBC prescribes the following distinction: Dickens’ novel /dɪkɪnz nɒvəl/ (identically to (a) Dickens novel), Dickens’s novel /dɪkɪnzɪz nɒvəl/. 
The American Heritage Dictionary (under the entry "possessive") prescribes restricting this to words or names of at least two syllables, such as witness' in practice, it is found on names of any length, even one syllable. James’, Chris's or Chris', Jesus's or Jesus'.
The possessives of names which end in s may be formed using either this suffix ( -'s) or bare -' (which see for more). s ' is used ( the dog s ’ tails, whereas for singular ‘dog’, the dog ’s tail). With regular plurals, the apostrophe is placed at the end, i.e. Words ending in s are made possessive in various ways. children) always take ’s: the children ’s voices. Irregular plurals with endings other than ‘s’ (e.g. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies ( First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC,, line Nay, but this dotage of our general ’s 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “ The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr.
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