High Street Beat is the personal weblog of John Landwehr, a partner at Cook Vetter Doerhoff & Landwehr and a former Mayor of Jefferson City. Your comments, feedback and suggestions are welcome.The Apostrophe Patrol never takes off during the holidays.
In fact, December is one of our busiest months because it seems like 50% of Christmas cards incorrectly pluralize the senders' last name.
If I see another "Happy Holidays from the Smith's" or "from the Smiths' I'm going to be ill.
In an effort to get out in front of this avalanche of punctuation incorrectness, we are posting Kate Brannen's wonderful Guide to Properly Pluralize Your Name on Christmas Messages.
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