It is "Fathers' Day", isn't it?

[Steala]

I have seen "Father's Day" but that seems wrong to me.

Thanks!

i would say father's day

it is made up commercial bollox anyway brought from the us

it depends if it is a day for inividual fathers or fathers collectively

i think the former but i doubt anyone else will lolol

so i will change my mind and say if you have to fathers' day

there all bases covered

i still dont agree with it tho lol

Thank you. So, since the father can't choose which day he has his day and it applies to all fathers, it must be "Fathers'".

The equivalent is Mother's Day, though (long Pedants' thread on that earlier this year). So by extension it would be Father's Day. I suppose if you consider the occasion as a peremptory "Hey, you -- this is a day for your father!" then that would make sense.

But we decided that the female version wasn't Mothers' Day. It was Mothering Sunday.
So that makes it Fathering Day - which sounds a bit rude!

Perhaps it's Father's Day because it's using the term Father almost symbolically, like saying the Crown for all the things that make up the Queen or King.
It's the day of the Father.

or, the day of fathers all over the country... Mothering Sunday is so much easier! I never get into a tangle on that one!