Grammar - Christmas at the ..Sign

[smellylittleorange]

Please help i'm confused - Christmas at the ..signs

Christmas at the Oranges'

or Christmas at the Oranges ( because there is no noun following...)

I asked my husband and he just laughed - when you look at all the signs on ebay/notonthe highstreet etc they are all different . I was sure I was right with the first option but reading on the internet I may be wrong..or I am reading American grammar rules - are they different??

[ChipIn]

You need the apostrophe because it's possession, not a plural.

[allegretto]

It is a plural. You don't need an apostrophe.

[MrsGsnow18]

Yes you need apostrophe assuming that it's short for Christmas at the oranges' house.

If it was Christmas with the oranges then no apostrophe needed as it's plural.

[peaceloveandbiscuits]

As mrsg says

[allegretto]

If you mean at the Oranges' home then it is possessive but it is also a question of style- I wouldn't put it. It use WITH instead of AT to solve the problem!

[MrsGsnow18]

Yes I also prefer WITH.

[smellylittleorange]

I prefer WITH to but I can't seem to find any signs that say that. So just imagine Orange was my surname - the amount of signs that I have seen that say Christmas at the Orange's is truly shocking!

I am probably going to have to make one myself which was what I was trying to avoid ..my poncing skills are not up to scratch!

[smellylittleorange]

too not to

[peaceloveandbiscuits]

No, you meant to

[peaceloveandbiscuits]

Oh wait the first to should have been too