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The difference with women's is that "women", although plural, does not end in an s. The apostrophe for plural possessives applies only when the plural ends in s. --Trovatore 03:04, 14 January 2018 (UTC) (edit conflict)Girl is better used to refer to females who are not yet adults. If they are adults, women should be used.
Post-nominal letters are letters placed after the name of a person to indicate that the individual holds a position, office, or honour. An individual may use several different sets of post-nominal letters. Honours are listed first in descending order of precedence, followed by degrees and memberships of learned societies in ascending order.
Where a business name is based on a family name it should in theory take an apostrophe, but many leave it out (contrast Sainsbury's with Harrods). In recent times there has been an increasing tendency to drop the apostrophe. Names based on a first name are more likely to take an apostrophe, but this is not always the case.
Apostrophe rules get confusing when it comes to holidays since some have an apostrophe while others don’t. For example, Americans celebrate Mother’s Day, April Fools’ Day, and Veterans Day ...
The Associated Press Stylebook says “use only an apostrophe” for singular proper names ending in S: Dickens’ novels, Hercules’ labors, Jesus’ life. But not everyone agrees.
Some 83% of women who have a college degree or less changed their names after marriage, compared to 79% of those with a bachelor's degree. And at the postgraduate-degree level, this falls further ...
The possessive form of an English noun, or more generally a noun phrase, is made by suffixing a morpheme which is represented orthographically as ' s (the letter s preceded by an apostrophe), and is pronounced in the same way as the regular English plural ending (e)s: namely, as / ɪ z / when following a sibilant sound (/ s /, / z /, / ʃ /, / ʒ /, / tʃ / or / dʒ /), as / s / when following ...
The share of women opting to change their name has… Almost 80 percent of women married to men have followed this tradition, according to a recently released Pew Research Center survey. Why most ...