Possessive apostrophes - Desktop Publishing Forum

09-22-2007, 03:15 PM

Michael Rowley

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Carl:

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They say it's Joneses'

You're probably mixing two idioms here: the expression is 'keeping up with the Joneses', meaning Mr Jones's family (or Mr Jones' family, if you prefer).

Who is Turabian? Is he the American Fowler, so to speak?

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