Saint Thomas' ???

[fryalot]

sign behind GB's head... is that correct?

I thought it was Thomas's or James's or whatever...

No, this is fine for plurals of words ending in S. You can choose either Thomas's or Thomas'.

Yes squonk, Thomas' or James' is correct.

At first glance itlooks wierd though.

The english language is full of oddities.

Innit.

there's an echo in her squonk

here

thank you.

I managed to start two threads (becuase I'm a numpty) and everyone's telling me this.

Wish I'd sat on my hands

although most locals call it Tommy's, anyway.

But Thomas isn't a plural.

at Squonk sitting on hands - as if !

no, it's a possessive, spidermama

boys... I can do it.

watch:

s ee

Heh heh heh

No, but when you use the plural form of a word ending in S, you can choose whether to add an apostrophe S or just an apostrophe.

Tommy's (the hospital) is always Tommy's because there's only one of it.

I'm more disturbed by the sign on the outside of St Thomas':

St Thomas'
Sewing the community

Go and look.

[[http://www.crossoverlambeth.com/Images/St%20Thomas'%20Hospital.jpg See.}}

Gah.

[[eejit}}

lol - the certainly stitched me up!

For a word ending in s, you would generally add an s after the apostrophe if you sounded it in speech. So I would write Thomas's.

Interestingly, in Spanish, Saints are San whatever, e.g. San Jose, San Pedro etc - except St. Thomas, who is Santo Tomas, so that it doesn't sound like "Santo Mas."

and now to send you all into a tailspin... Earl's Court...Shepherds' Bush.... Barons Court

The court of one Earl, the bush of more than one Shepherd and... a court which possesses Barons?

A court THAT possesses Barons, not which possesses Barons - that is very poor indeed on a pedantry thread. That defines, which informs.

Well - I work in St James's building and THAT's deemed correct

Its possession of Barons could be just one aspect of it?

Its funny when you buy banana's from a shop and it's signs are punctuated wrong