{"id":2747,"date":"2018-05-08T23:00:45","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T05:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/?p=2747"},"modified":"2020-11-25T11:35:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T17:35:46","slug":"confusing-possessives-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/apostrophes\/confusing-possessives-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Confusing Possessives Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the second Sunday in May approaches, many of you may be wondering how to write the name of the holiday\u2014is it Mother\u2019s Day, Mothers\u2019 Day, or Mothers Day? We first looked into the topic of where to properly place holiday apostrophes in a 2008 newsletter. Today we provide an update.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Chicago Manual of Style<\/em>\u00a0and <em>The Associated Press Stylebook <\/em>list the following holidays as singular possessives: Mother\u2019s Day, Father\u2019s Day, New Year\u2019s Eve, New Year\u2019s Day, St. Patrick\u2019s Day. <em>CMOS <\/em>uses plural possessive for Presidents\u2019 Day, while <em>AP Style <\/em>writes Presidents Day. Both agree on no apostrophe in Veterans Day.<\/p>\n<p>Your guess is as good as anyone\u2019s about Secretary\u2019s vs. Secretaries\u2019 vs. Secretaries Day and Boss\u2019s vs. Bosses\u2019 vs. Bosses Day.<\/p>\n<p>What would you do if we had a Children\u2019s Day holiday? Because\u00a0<em>Children<\/em>\u00a0is an irregular plural (not formed by adding an\u00a0<em>s<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0<em>es<\/em>), you would have to use the apostrophe in the title because there is no such word as\u00a0<em>Childrens<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Children\u2019s Hospital<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the second Sunday in May approaches, many of you may be wondering how to write the name of the holiday\u2014is it Mother\u2019s Day, Mothers\u2019 Day, or Mothers Day? We first looked into the topic of where to properly place holiday apostrophes in a 2008 newsletter. Today we provide an update. The Chicago Manual of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,34,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apostrophes","category-possessives","category-singular-vs-plural"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}