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, ...

Women's. Just as "cats' pyjamas" means "pyjamas possessed by cats", so "womens'" would mean possessed by "womens". Jeremy Marchant, Stroud, Gloucestershire It's women's. The apostrophe goes after the ...

On October 22nd, at 2:50 P.M., @APStylebook tweeted a series of guidelines about how to punctuate possessives of nouns that end in “S”: “For possessives of plural nouns ending in s, add only an ...

Have you ever corrected someone mid-conversation because what he said just didn't sound right? What I'm talking about is words that sound like plurals and possessives but shouldn't be and vice versa.

While walking through Delhis roads and admiring private housing one often encounters incorrect signages An imposing granite and steel houses often sport a house numbers and a nameplate display saying ...

It's about time for our possessives to do a reverse Pluto. Pluto, you know, used to be a planet. Then it got demoted. This is like a word being turned into a prefix or suffix. Well, my ...

I’m sorry. I cannot take it any more. I have put up with the numerous spelling and grammatical errors in The Herald for a long time, but this needs to stop! For example, “’s” (apostrophe S) is ...

Possessives shouldn't be difficult. In many languages, they're not. In French for example, to talk about the car belonging to Robert, you just say "the car of Robert": la voiture de Robert. Spanish ...