• @realbadat
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    72 days ago

    No, just forgot the name already and though it was Sandwiches as a last name when I typed it the second time around.

    • JackbyDev
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      22 days ago

      Ah. Well then it’d be Sandwiches’s

      • @realbadat
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        12 days ago

        That’s one option. But Sandwiches’ is valid too, as it ends in an s and is a proper noun, it’s not exclusive to plurals. AP style guide for example requires it (and got a lot of flack when 's was proposed as acceptable).

        Plus sandwiches itself is a singular noun which is a plural word, so it’s s’ not s’s for most cases there.

        Anyway, grammar is weird.

        • JackbyDev
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          22 days ago

          What we really need to know is how to make possessive plurals of proper nouns that are plural but refer to a single thing.

          Imagine a club called The Backstreets. Is it The Backstreetses’?

          What about how to make plurals of proper nouns that are possessive? Like a restaurant called Your Grandparents’. Is it Your Grandparents’es? What about the possessive plural? AYour Grandparents’es’?

          • @realbadat
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            22 days ago

            I think it may 100% depend on alcohol and/or THC intake, both of the person writing it and the person reading it. I believe those are the accepted rules as written in both the New York Writing Style Guide and the Chicago Writing Style Guide.

            I believe it fits under the section titled As the mood strikes; grammar’s mishaps’s and bewilderment