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Joness or Jones? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange So: "Jones's" and "Horowitz's" but "the Joneses' house" and "the Horowitzes' house" (because they already have the fricative plural ending--which is not the case for "children's" or "mice's", where the s possessive is added to a plural noun)
Where did Im Jonesing get its meaning from? Slang dictionary coverage of 'jones' J E Lighter, Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang (1997) traces the slang term jones as a noun to 1962 and as a verb to 1974: jones n {fr Jones, common family name; semantic devel unkn } Orig Black E 1 Narc a a drug addiction, esp to heroin
How does one write the name of a married female and spouse in a list of . . . Mrs Jane Smith (née Jones) Mrs Cynthia Corning (née Stratton-Longbottom) Etc I'm not sure whether 'Mrs' or 'Ms' is preferred when the context clearly shows that the lady is married I'm old-fashioned enough to think it should be 'Mrs', but modern style might use 'Ms' The referenced URL did not place brackets around the maiden name
Is the correct format Good morning, John or Good morning John? Stack Exchange Network Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers
Apostrophe s or ss - English Language Usage Stack Exchange On the use of so-called 'zero genitive', marked by a simple apostrophe in spelling ('), as opposed to the 's genitive, Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech and Svartvik specify in A Comprehensive grammar of the English Language (pp 320 321) that:
What is the correct possessive for nouns ending in ‑s? @EdwinAshworth According to Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, "With proper names ending in a sibilant, usage varies Usually, the possessive is pronounced regularly, though the spelling may vary: Jones’ , Jones’s dʒoʊnzəz Less commonly, the possessive ending is unpronounced (dʒoʊnz), but the corresponding spelling is then Jones’ " –
You can contact John, Jane or me (myself) for more information The use of "myself" and similar reflexives for emphasis is normal English usage of the word This particular speaker wanted to place emphasis on the fact that they personally were one of the people you could contact for information
Spacing after Mr. Mrs. Ms. ? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Yes "Mrs " and "Jones" are separate words so a space must be placed between them It may be worth noting that in Commonwealth English, no full-stop is included for abbreviations that consist of the first and last letters of a word, e g the American English "Dr Jones" would be rendered "Dr Jones"
apostrophe - Is it The Johnsons or The Johnsons - English Language . . . "The Johnsons" is the correct answer "The Johnson's" is a possessive form of the proper noun, as in the Johnson's house, the Johnson's blasé attitude towards telemarketers, The Johnson's willingness to run from danger, etc
How does A hit dog will holler work as a metaphor? Sam Jones says, throw a stone into a crowd of dogs, and the hit dog will holler Quoted from an article in The Ozark Banner-Advertiser (Ozark, Alabama) 31 Aug 1893 (paywalled) The "authorized" version of the 1885 Sermons and Sayings reproduces Jones's original more faithfully than the 1893 popular press paraphrase: