Jeremy Mallin on Nostr: When I was a kid, teachers taught us that plural words that end with "s" that are ...
When I was a kid, teachers taught us that plural words that end with "s" that are meant to be possessive should end with an apostrophe after the "s" and nothing else. I have been coming across more and more people ending those words with "s's". Did they not get the memo or is that construction changing?
ex: "peoples'" versus "peoples's"
#Linguistics
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