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Post by sudie on Nov 17, 2017 18:33:41 GMT
Haha! Thank you for this. Every. Single. Year. My favorite comes from an English teacher!
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Post by Merge on Nov 17, 2017 18:39:26 GMT
My grandmother crocheted a beautiful name plaque for our wedding - a crocheted piece matted and framed with our name. She put an apostrophe in it, so it's "The Merge's." I treasure it because she made it, but I cringe every time I walk by it. It hangs in the back hallway where not too many people will see it.
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Post by malibou on Nov 17, 2017 19:46:22 GMT
My last name ends in -man. I've seen crazy things to include -manes and -menes.
We were thinking of adopting -menes.
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Post by lucyg on Nov 17, 2017 22:51:43 GMT
Isn’t Smith, as a family, a singular noun - the Smith Family, their house is the Smith’s house. Unless you mean multiple families called Smith? 😀 Yep. Nope. And I have to say, as much as I love you guys, I've seen more apostrophe insanity on your side of the pond than ours. A wide variety of errors, so it's not just that you may be using different rules from ours. More like there are no rules.
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Post by AmeliaBloomer on Nov 18, 2017 3:14:22 GMT
Nope. And I have to say, as much as I love you guys, I've seen more apostrophe insanity on your side of the pond than ours. A wide variety of errors, so it's not just that you may be using different rules from ours. More like there are no rules. Heh. I was waiting for you to gallop in to reinforce the plural possessive troops. What took you so long?
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Post by lucyg on Nov 18, 2017 4:28:41 GMT
Nope. And I have to say, as much as I love you guys, I've seen more apostrophe insanity on your side of the pond than ours. A wide variety of errors, so it's not just that you may be using different rules from ours. More like there are no rules. Heh. I was waiting for you to gallop in to reinforce the plural possessive troops. What took you so long? I don't know what happened! I must have missed this thread first time around. You know I couldn't resist a title like that. I sent the link to everyone in my family.
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Post by papersilly on Nov 18, 2017 5:46:04 GMT
DH's family name has a letter than should have an ES at the end to make it plural. that and NO apostrophe. MIL had one of those handmade yard sign made at a craft fair and she instructed the crafter to put an apostrophe AND just an "S" at the end. i knew it was wrong from the moment i saw it but i just laugh to myself when i see it staked on the front lawn during the holidays.
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Post by myshelly on Nov 18, 2017 5:56:39 GMT
I've seen this floating around FB and I really, really want to tag my BIL.
He gets his last name wrong every.single.year.
And he doesn't even have a difficult last name. It doesn't end in an s or a vowel or even a y or a z. There is literally nothing tricky about it. All he has to do is add an s. But, no. It's always wrong.
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Post by Just Beth on Nov 18, 2017 7:59:47 GMT
My married name was one letter off from a word that is an Italian food. So let’s say it was something like “Rigatini” so I always used “The Rigatini Family” to avoid the people who insisted on making us the “The Rigatini’s” ugh. And “Rigatinis” looks like it should end with a “niss” sound which is wrong.
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Post by gillyp on Nov 18, 2017 9:23:33 GMT
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Post by gar on Nov 18, 2017 9:35:26 GMT
Nope. And I have to say, as much as I love you guys, I've seen more apostrophe insanity on your side of the pond than ours. A wide variety of errors, so it's not just that you may be using different rules from ours. More like there are no rules.
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Post by candleangie on Nov 18, 2017 18:13:14 GMT
I’m actually going to a sign painting party and the sign says Christmas at the Smith’s (with the apostrophe) which I thought was correct and then I thought about it and it seemed not correct and now I’m just all confused about which way is correct. I may just switch it and say Merry Christmas and be done with it. 😲😂 . It’s correct to use an apostrophe . It’s an invitation to spend the day at the place belonging to the Smiths. The “AT” makes it about the place. If they said “WITH” the Smiths, then you’re talking about the people and not the place. The problem is the placement.? Plural possession places the apostrophe after the s!
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Post by lucyg on Nov 18, 2017 19:20:06 GMT
Nope. And I have to say, as much as I love you guys, I've seen more apostrophe insanity on your side of the pond than ours. A wide variety of errors, so it's not just that you may be using different rules from ours. More like there are no rules.
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