Glad you're getting on with the gardening Nanny, best way, don't distress yourself with things like correct grammar, as long as you make yourself clear in what you want or need, it really doesn't matter.
I couldnt care a monkeys toss where an apostrophe goes. I can make myself clear though when I want/ need something.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Each to his/her own. Lyn, you are a very talented gardener and Steve was a teacher. Can't be good at everything. I like music but I can't sing or play anything. Thank goodness we all have different talents and personalities.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Yes, B3 - the infallible rule is that the apostrophe immediately follows the owner.
The children's toys
Mr Jones's house (but of course 'keeping up with the Joneses' which is a plural, although it looks odd)
Apparently (which means I vaguely remember having read it somewhere, or heard it on QI), one is supposed to omit the final 's' after the apostrophe with Jesus and St James. Only.
St. James' Park (but pronounced 'Saint Jameses')
Jesus' miracles (but pronounced ' Jesuses')
Does that, I wonder (if true) apply only to the original holder of that name, or also to all his namesakes in South America?
(or were you referring to my use of in my last post? I was just expressing anger at another americanism!)
...and just in case this thread does soon disappear (which'd be a shame), how would one arrange things if one wanted to refer to the house belonging to the Jones family? The Joneses's house? I think not.
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I couldnt care a monkeys toss where an apostrophe goes. I can make myself clear though when I want/ need something.
Nanny, IMO = in my opinion.
Each to his/her own. Lyn, you are a very talented gardener and Steve was a teacher. Can't be good at everything. I like music but I can't sing or play anything. Thank goodness we all have different talents and personalities.
Steve - and with any plural not ending with 's' , the apostrophe goes on the inside as in men's, people's etc
Yes, B3 - the infallible rule is that the apostrophe immediately follows the owner.
Apparently (which means I vaguely remember having read it somewhere, or heard it on QI), one is supposed to omit the final 's' after the apostrophe with Jesus and St James. Only.
Does that, I wonder (if true) apply only to the original holder of that name, or also to all his namesakes in South America?
You do the math.
I'm going back out into the garden.
Who's upset? Sorry if it's my fault
(or were you referring to my use of
in my last post? I was just expressing anger at another americanism!)
...and just in case this thread does soon disappear (which'd be a shame), how would one arrange things if one wanted to refer to the house belonging to the Jones family? The Joneses's house? I think not.