This email just hit my inbox, courtesy of one of my mother's friends.
"Great! We look forward to seeing you on the 30th. What a great group – the Young’s, Smith’s, Humphries’, Fowler’s, Lee’s and Hundahl’s. Yea!"
I want to know the thought process when she came to Humphries and decided to add the apostrophe but not go for plural.
2 comments:
Did you not learn from Mr. Cullanan that if you want to make something plural that ends in an "S", you only need the apostrophe? (I'm a little concerned telling a St. John's student this when she probably knows better than I do...)
- Just a Duchesne high schooler
You're kidding, right? That only applies if the singular ends in an "s" or if you've made the singular plural by adding an "s" or "es", as appropriate.
So it should be "Humphrieses" or, if you're going with the author's crazed apostrophe model "Humphries'es" or "Humphriese's", since I can only speculate as to which she would have chosen.
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