My latest article for The Week looks at the rationale people give for wanting to leave the apostrophe out of Father(’)s Day, Mother(’)s Day, etc.: the fathers, mothers, and others don’t possess the days, so we shouldn’t use the possessive. And so here we see one of the most badly misnamed features in English grammar:
Stop calling possessives ‘possessive’
Posted in The Week
Tagged Fathers Day, genitive, Mothers Day, possessive, Presidents Day, The Week, Veterans Day
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