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Children's or Childrens' Centre?

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BookcaseFullofBooks · 13/10/2010 19:25

I often get confused about where the apostrophe should go in instances like this.
I've been using the latter form because I thought it was a case of the centre belonging to several children.
Please tell me I haven't been writing it incorrectly on a public forum Shock

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IggitheImpaler · 13/10/2010 20:33

I won't tell you then. Grin
Children is already plural, surely.

Feenie · 13/10/2010 20:37

'Children' is a group word, and so it is classed as singular (like people, or crowd, or audience). So it's children's. Sorry!

JiggeryPopery · 13/10/2010 20:37

Children's
Women's
Men's

etc.

mumbybumby · 13/10/2010 20:37

What iggi said! :)
1st one's correct as 'children' is already plural.

IMoveTheStars · 13/10/2010 20:38

But Girls' School is correct because Girl is singular?

IggitheImpaler · 13/10/2010 20:43

Oui.
School of the girls.
School of the children.

IMoveTheStars · 13/10/2010 20:47

So it would be children's school and girls' school?

I wasn't taught grammar at school, can you tell? Wink

BookcaseFullofBooks · 13/10/2010 20:54

Ah, thank you

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