Plurals

[TheBucktoothedGirlFromLuxembourg]

If you were writing a card or label from a family with a surname that end in "s" would you write

1. Happy birthday from The Thomases

1. Happy birthday from The Thomas's

My choice was option 1 but I have been told I should have used option 2.

Thomas's means possession. Thomases means more than one. You are correct.

You are correct, OP.

You can also say "From the Thomas family."

Or the Thomas’

No, that’s incorrect. There is no possessive here.

You were correct OP.

https://academic.oup.com/bja/article/90/5/708/270106#

My previous post was wrong 😑

Yes you are right 😄

Nope, it's 'es'. More than one Thomas. An apostrophe makes it possessive. You were correct.

Thank you everyone. I disagreed with the person who tried to correct me and said that "apostrophe s" indicates possession so it is nice to know that I was right.

I would say "from the Thomases" if I had to use the surname, but I'd be more likely, depending on how well I knew the recipient, to say either "from Rita, Fred, Jimmy and Eddy" or "from all at number 83." I can't think of a situation, other than neighbours who put the number themselves, where I would know someone well enough to want to give them a card but not well enough to want them to know our first names.