Many Manon's, Lily's, Hazel's, Reuben's.

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I keep seeing plurals like these being apostrophised, especially on Mumsnet. For example, ' there are lots of little Lily's in my daughter's class.' It's driving me absolutely bonkers. Why is it seen everywhere? 😫

Yikes! So the apostrophe AFTER the ‘S’?

@HoldMeCloserTonyDancer , Mr & Mr Smith and their DC are the Smiths.
Stuck for a name for their house, they called it The Smiths'.
The Smith's implies that it belongs to the smith (blacksmith) not the Smith family.

She also did ones that said “Christmas with the smith’s/brown’s” where there shouldn’t be any apostrophe.

Oh wow this thread is so infuriating…😩🙈😂

Yes I can see that now. Confusing! X

Please don't worry, you haven't annoyed or upset me at all!

is a group of children called Lilly actually a group of Lillies?

I know a Mr and Mrs Woolf. I'm always slightly tempted to call them the Woolves.

I know someone whose dd is called Emily. She calls her Ems for short, but spells it Em's. Drives me bonkers.