Grammar question

[RevengeOfTheRoundRobin]

Writing Christmas card to a family friend who used to be a teacher! Is this correct?

DD's playing again for the U11 team...

Or do I have to re-write the card or try to fudge it so it says:
DD is playing ...

Dd is playing. Dd’s means she owns the playing.

'Sally's playing again...'
'Sally is playing again...'

Both correct. A card is informal so the use of the contraction is probably more appropriate.

Both are correct.

's is short for is, in this instance. The apostrophe stands in for the missing I. (The apostrophe's standing in...)

Appreciate they used to be a teacher but nobody pays that much attention to what's written in christmas cards do they? I'd go with the assumption they'll barely read it, seal the envelope and send.

DD’s playing is absolutely fine. It’s the contraction of DD is playing.

@MustardScreams

It also means DD is playing.
It's a contraction as well as possession.

What they said.

It’s perfectly fine.

I appreciate nobody pays that much attention but if there's a glaring mistake she will definitely tell my mum

As long as you've got an apostrophe in the right place, you're fine, when writing to a friend, I would have thought. Sticklers from pedants' corner might think otherwise!

Or was it just a stealth boast?

Apostrophes are used to signal both contractions and possessives, so it's fine, OP.

(Incidentally, do any people with a good grasp on Early and Middle English know when the convention of putting an apostrophe in possessives started? All the Germanic languages seem to form their genitive cases in similar ways, but it's only English which has this peculiar use of punctuation, as far as I can see.)

only to family friend Watcher because, if the last two years are anything to go by, my parents' newsletter will be of the format:
Look what DN and DN have done, this, that, something else and this and then they did that and this, aren't they wonderful. Take piss out of DC1 and DC2.

PS DD is 8 and yes, I am proud of her. It was genuinely a grammar question, this bit is the stealth boast!

(Incidentally, do any people with a good grasp on Early and Middle English know when the convention of putting an apostrophe in possessives started? All the Germanic languages seem to form their genitive cases in similar ways, but it's only English which has this peculiar use of punctuation, as far as I can see.)

I'm a medievalist and all I can tell you is it's post-medieval. Medieval punctuation doesn't include apostrophes.

Thanks Sarah!

DD's can be possessive but in this context it is clearly a contraction of DD is. Sheesh, mustard.

DD’s playing... is fine. It’s a contraction.

Both are correct