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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
Welcome to the Jones__: Plural or Plural Possessive? The plural of Jones is Joneses, ‐es being added as an indicator of the plurality of a word of which the singular form ends in s, as in dresses or messes The apposition of the much misused apostrophe to the word Jones does not pluralize it Source: Keeping up with the Jones’ or Joneses?
word order - How does one write the name of a married female and spouse . . . 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
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A couple of quick questions related to Messrs Messrs is often used by (British Commonwealth) lawyers and proprietors of older establishements, as in "Messrs Jones and Hawthorne" It's still very common in some parts of the world Also, as a point of interest, some lawyers also like to use the postfix Esq as in "Richard Jones, Esq " –
grammaticality - How to address an entire family in a letter? - English . . . There is a case to be made for parallelism We use Dear Mr Jones, Dear Mrs Jones, Dear Messrs Green, Dear Dr Tyler, putting the honorific or title before the surname Using the same construction, I have seen, and occasionally use, the parallel usage Dear Family Smith
Should I put myself last? me and my friends vs. my friends and me . . . “Me and Mrs Jones” “Me and Bobby McGee” “Me Julio Down by the Schoolyard” What happens is as pronouns in conjoined subjects get further and further from the verb, the impulse to change the default form into the subject form is weaker, and in informal contexts, is simply not followed
grammaticality - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Detective Jones asked me a few question, which I answered After listening carefully and taking notes, the Detective then came back to me with some more questions I think you would capitalize the D, because "the Detective" is being used as a shorthand for "Detective Jones" But it looks a little odd, so I am not sure
keeping maiden name after marriage - English Language Usage Stack . . . If the woman chooses to hyphenate, (Mary Smith-Jones) I think either "Ms " or "Mrs " would be acceptable, and "Miss" would be wrong If her maiden name was first I'd go with "Mrs " if her maiden name was last, I'd go with "Ms " One other brief thing: I think a period is optional after both Mrs and Ms but is incorrect after Miss