Do you just pronounce it like “Travises” like we do colloquially? Or is there some way to do it.

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    -125 months ago

    Okay, so, first: It should also be written “Travis’s”.

    Only if it is plural do you put the possessive apostrophe last.

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        75 months ago

        I try to follow the Chicago Manual of Style, so for me it’s Travis’s. Generally that’s the style guide used in fiction.

        The Associated Press Stylebook just puts an apostrophe at the end of a proper noun ending with “s,” however (although they will use an apostrophe-ess for common nouns, creating things like scissors’s).

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      65 months ago

      To make any word possessive that ends with s you put the apostrophe after the s. So Travis’ is the correct way to say something like, “Travis’ shoes were muddy.”