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July 2008
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apostrophe
Hello, I've noticed that a large number of editors for Wikipedia don't use the correct application of the possesive apostrophe, indeed they go out of their way to remove it on many occasions. Here's a small style guide. Hope you accept it in the spirit it's given, I don't mean to offend.

Possesive apostrophes are really very simple:

If the word possessed is singular then it's apostrophe-S ('s)

If the word is plural then S-apostrophe (s').

An exception to this rule is if the word is plural without ending in s, such as "men" or "children". Then the apostrophe remains within the word and is apostrophe-S ('s).

Some examples: The boy's book (book owner by A boy)

The boys' book (book owned by more than one boy)

The child's book (book owned by one child)

The children's book (plural but not ending in s, so book owned by more than one child)

Butcher's Shop (a shop possessed/owned by a Butcher)

Newsagent's Shop (shop owned/managed by a newsagent)

Note: a newsagent is a person, a newsagent's shop is the building

Many of these phrases can be contracted without losing their meaning but the possessive apostrophe should remain,

examples from above:

The boy's - something owned by one boy

the boys' - something owned by more than one boy

The Butcher's - something owned by a butcher e.g a shop, a knife

The Newsagent's - something owned by a newsagent e.g. a shop, a magazine

Newsagents (without the possesive apostrophe) is the plural of newsagent (a person) and means more than one newsagent (people, not a building).

In many cases particularly in Wikipedia pages about towns and cities, the editor or original writer lists shops and building on the local high street. In amongst the list of buildings: Town Hall, Supermarket etc comes the grammatical incorrect Newsagents or Butchers. These are people not buildings, with the correct building noun being Newsagent's (Shop) or Butcher's (Shop). —Preceding unsigned comment added by World of departure (talk • contribs) 10:11, 3 October 2009 (UTC)