Los Angeles Times

A Word, Please: It’s sometimes tricky to navigate plural possessives

When I saw “men’s’ clothing” with two apostrophes, I figured it must be a typo. I was editing a professional writer who’s been on the job for years, and I know from experience that writers make typos, ...
Los Angeles Times

A Word, Please: Heed this holiday advice on plural names and apostrophes

Every year in this column, I give tips for how to avoid the most common writing mistakes in holiday greetings and invitations. And every year, I’m reminded of just how influential I’m not as people ...
The Post-Journal

Using Apostrophes Is Simple

Mark Twain’s encounter with a particular foreign tongue inspired an essay called “The Awful German Language.” Welcome to a new feature of this column. We won’t call it “The Awful English Language.” ...
manilatimes

Clarifying how the double possessive in English works

ALL of us surely already know that in English, possession of something can be denoted by simply adding an apostrophe and an "s" to most singular nouns, as in "the candidate's persona," "that woman's ...
NPR

Arkansans Quibble Over the Possessive 'S'

Rep. Steve Harrelson, a Democrat in the Arkansas legislature, yesterday introduced a resolution to declare the correct way to write the possessive form of the state's name. That would be, he says, ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Resolution spells out state's possessive form

LITTLE ROCK — The pronunciation of the state name is enshrined in state law, and now a top member of the House of Representatives wants to declare a particular way of spelling the name's possessive ...
Chicago Tribune

Possessive is ninth-tenths law in Arkansas’s statutes

It could go down in history as the Arkansas Apostrophe Act of 2007. Or maybe “Arkansas’s Apostrophe Act of 2007.” Last month, the Arkansas State Legislature passed a non-binding resolution declaring ...