A fried chicken restaurant is a fast food restaurant, often a chain, that serves (mainly) fried chicken —usually chunks of chicken, battered or breaded and deep-fried .
70-558: Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, Inc. , also known as Popeyes and formerly named Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits and Popeyes Famous Fried Chicken & Biscuits , is an American multinational chain of fried chicken restaurants formed in 1972 in New Orleans and headquartered in Miami. It is currently a subsidiary of Toronto -based Restaurant Brands International . As of 2021, Popeyes has 3,705 restaurants, which are located in more than 46 states and
140-486: A trans fat -free biscuit as well as french fries containing one gram of trans fat by year-end. On November 18, 2011, AFC announced that, for the Thanksgiving holiday, Popeyes would release a Fried Turducken sandwich that would show off the first ever Turducken patty. On July 29, 2013, AFC began offering a special entree of fried chicken strips dipped in waffle batter, which was already a proven success in some markets. For
210-574: A bid to solidify their presence within the Asia Pacific region. All were to be located in Sydney, the capital city of New South Wales. On January 21, 2014, AFC was renamed as Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, Inc., and its NASDAQ ticker symbol was changed to PLKI. On June 17, 2014, Popeyes announced it had re-acquired full control of its seasonings, recipes, and other proprietary food preparation techniques from Diversified Foods & Seasonings, which remained under
280-449: A coordinate possessive construction has two personal pronouns, the normal possessive inflection is used, and there is no apostrophe (e.g., "his and her children"). The issue of the use of the apostrophe arises when the coordinate construction includes a noun (phrase) and a pronoun. In this case, the inflection of only the last item may sometimes be, at least marginally, acceptable ("you and your spouse's bank account"). The inflection of both
350-471: A distinctive orange and white color scheme. The original locations had a black lava rock exterior with a red shingled roof. Most older locations have covered the rock exterior to conform with the current orange stucco appearance. During the 1970s and 1980s, the company occasionally licensed characters from the Popeye comic strip to use in its advertising. TV and radio ads often use New Orleans-style music, along with
420-482: A dollar's worth , five pounds' worth , one mile's drive from here . This is like an ordinary possessive use. For example, one hour's respite means a respite of one hour (exactly as the cat's whiskers means the whiskers of the cat ). No apostrophe is used in the following possessive pronouns and adjectives: hers , his , its , my , mine , ours , theirs , whose , and yours . All other possessive pronouns do end with an apostrophe and an s . In singular forms,
490-431: A good friend who will give it to them straight, and that's what Annie is all about", Lynch said. Popeyes has sponsored various NASCAR drivers since 2000. That year, NASCAR Busch Series driver Rich Bickle was sponsored by the company for six races, while Mark McFarland received a one-race deal in the same series the following season. In March 2018, Tyler Matthews made his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series debut in
560-593: A limited time only in 2017, Popeyes offered "Sweet and Crunchy" chicken, fried chicken tenders coated in shortbread cookie breading. In 2021, Popeyes introduced a flounder sandwich. Popeyes began selling a chicken sandwich in August 2019 to compete with Chick-fil-A 's similar flagship sandwich. The company first launched the sandwich at Long Beach restaurant Sweet Dixie Kitchen, a locally-famous spot that had become known for reselling fried chicken that it had purchased at Popeyes. The sandwich launched nationwide to all locations in
630-445: A period of slower expansion. By 1990, Copeland Enterprises was in default on $ 391 million in debts it had taken on in its 1989 purchase of Church's , a rival fast food chain also focusing in fried chicken, and by April 1991, the company filed for bankruptcy protection. In October 1992, the court approved a plan by a group of Copeland's creditors that resulted in the creation of America's Favorite Chicken Company, Inc. (AFC) to serve as
700-402: A punctuation mark, an apostrophe and an s are still added in the usual way: " Westward Ho! 's railway station"; " Awaye! ' s Paulette Whitten recorded Bob Wilson's story"; Washington, D.C.'s museums . (assuming that the prevailing style requires full stops in D.C. ). An apostrophe is used in time and money references in constructions such as one hour's respite , two weeks' holiday ,
770-578: A sibilant sound, have possessive forms with an extra s after the apostrophe so that the spelling reflects the underlying pronunciation. Examples include Oxford University Press , the Modern Language Association , the BBC and The Economist . Such authorities demand possessive singulars like these: Bridget Jones's Diary ; Tony Adams's friend; my boss's job; the US's economy . Rules that modify or extend
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#1733085829113840-482: A silent x , z or s , the few authorities that address the issue at all typically call for an added s and suggest that the apostrophe precede the s : The Loucheux's homeland is in the Yukon ; Compare the two Dumas's literary achievements . The possessive of a cited French title with a silent plural ending is uncertain: " Trois femmes 's long and complicated publication history", but " Les noces ' singular effect
910-554: A small fish and chip shop called Popeye's Takeaways in Feilding , New Zealand, to change its name although the shop does not sell fried chicken. Fried chicken restaurant The concept of selling the popular British dish of fried chicken restaurant originated in the United States . These restaurants may also serve other food items, such as roast or grilled chicken, seafood , or hamburgers . KFC (previously Kentucky Fried Chicken)
980-427: A stadium called St James' Park , and Exeter City at St James Park , London has a St James's Park (this whole area of London is named after the parish of St James's Church, Piccadilly ). Modern usage has been influenced by considerations of technological convenience including the economy of typewriter ribbons and films, and similar computer character "disallowance" which tend to ignore past standards. Practice in
1050-449: A vowel (as in [...] Comma's are used , Philip Luckcombe , 1771) and in the consonants s , z , ch , sh , (as in waltz's and cotillions , Washington Irving , 1804)... The use of elision has continued to the present day, but significant changes have been made to the possessive and plural uses. By the 18th century, an apostrophe with the addition of an "s" was regularly used for all possessive singular forms, even when
1120-607: Is a common grammatical error in present times. Each of these four phrases (listed in Steven Pinker 's The Language Instinct ) has a distinct meaning: Kingsley Amis , on being challenged to produce a sentence whose meaning depended on a possessive apostrophe, came up with: Some singular nouns are pronounced with a sibilant sound at the end: /s/ or /z/. The spelling of these ends with -s , -se , -z , -ze , -ce , -x , or -xe . Most respected authorities recommend that practically all singular nouns, including those ending with
1190-477: Is a lack of consensus and certainly the use of an apostrophe continues, legitimately, in which "the apostrophe of plurality occurs in the first word but not the second". The Oxford Companion to the English Language notes that "a plural s after a set of numbers is often preceded by an apostrophe, as in 3's and 4's ..., but many housestyles and individuals now favour 3s and 4s ". Most style guides prefer
1260-671: Is a well-known example. Others include: Chains of fried chicken fast-food restaurants originating in Canada include Dixie Lee based in Napanee, Ontario and Mary Brown's based in Markham, Ontario . Several US-based chains have also outlets in Canada , including KFC and Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits. Restaurants are commonplace in inner city areas of the United Kingdom . The United Kingdom has one of
1330-502: Is also used in a few distinctive cases for the marking of plurals , e.g. "p's and q's" or Oakland A's . It is also used informally to indicate the units of foot and minutes of arc , although in these uses, the prime symbol is generally preferred. The word apostrophe comes from the Greek ἡ ἀπόστροφος [προσῳδία] (hē apóstrophos [prosōidía], '[the accent of] turning away or elision'), through Latin and French . The apostrophe
1400-729: Is more than one neighbour owning the garden) is standard rather than "the neighbours's garden". Compound nouns have their singular possessives formed with an apostrophe and an added s , in accordance with the rules given above: the Attorney-General's husband ; the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports 's prerogative ; this Minister for Justice's intervention ; her father-in-law's new wife . For two nouns (or noun phrases) joined by and , there are several ways of expressing possession, including: Some grammars make no distinction in meaning between
1470-409: Is normally preferred (e.g. Jack's and your dogs), but there is a tendency to avoid this construction, too, in favour of a construction that does not use a coordinate possessive (e.g. by using "Jack's letters and yours"). Where a construction like "Jack's and your dogs" is used, the interpretation is usually "segregatory" (i.e. not joint possession). If the word or compound includes, or even ends with,
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#17330858291131540-499: Is often a policy of leaving off the additional s on any such name, but this can prove problematic when specific names are contradictory (for example, St James' Park in Newcastle [the football ground] and the area of St James's Park in London). However, debate has been going on regarding the punctuation of St James' Park (Newcastle) for some time, unlike St James's Park (London) which
1610-442: Is the less contentious version. For more details on practice with geographic names, see the relevant section below . Some writers like to reflect standard spoken practice in cases like these with sake : for convenience' sake , for goodness' sake , for appearance' sake , for compromise' sake , etc. This punctuation is preferred in major style guides. Others prefer to add 's : for convenience's sake . Still others prefer to omit
1680-435: Is truffle ; His pince-nez 's loss went unnoticed ; "Verreaux('s) eagle, a large, predominantly black eagle, Aquila verreauxi ,..." ( OED , entry for "Verreaux", with silent x ; see Verreaux's eagle ); in each of these some writers might omit the added s . The same principles and residual uncertainties apply with "naturalised" English words, like Illinois and Arkansas . For possessive plurals of words ending in
1750-931: The COVID-19 pandemic . In October 2021, Popeyes signed an agreement with Romanian company Sterling Cruise to open 90 restaurants in Romania in the next 10 years, the first one opened on April 9, 2022. In January 2022, Popeyes Signed an agreement with South Korean Tuna Supplier Shilla International to open again in South Korea, the first one opened in January 2023. Popeyes opened its first store in Indonesia in 2000 under PT Popeyes Chicken Seafood Indonesia (later taken over by PT Popindo Selera Prima in 2002) and had opened its store in Jakarta , Bandung , Yogyakarta , Surabaya , Medan and Samarinda , but
1820-651: The District of Columbia , Puerto Rico , and 30 countries worldwide. About 50 locations are company-owned; the other ~98% are franchised . Popeyes was formed in Arabi, Louisiana , a suburb of New Orleans, Louisiana , in St. Bernard Parish . It first opened its doors on June 12, 1972, as "Chicken on the Run". Owner Al Copeland (1944–2008) wanted to compete with Kentucky Fried Chicken , but his restaurant failed after several months. Copeland reopened
1890-603: The 20th century, today "the apostrophe of plurality continues in at least five areas": abbreviations, letters of the alphabet/small words, numbers, family names, and in non-standard use. For abbreviations, including acronyms, the use of s without an apostrophe is now more common than its use with an apostrophe. Most modern style guides disparage the use of apostrophes in all plural abbreviations. Some references continue to condone their use, or even recommend their use in some abbreviations. For example, The Canadian Style states "Add an apostrophe and s to form
1960-742: The Labour MP for Tottenham , David Lammy , has said that the proliferation of chicken joints hampers prosperity in his constituency. Residents in Waltham Forest see them as "eyesores that encourage anti-social behaviour ", according to a poll. Chicken shops are nevertheless regarded by some people as important cultural institutions in the UK, particular for black and Asian communities. A 2017 article in Vice suggested that as meeting places and providers of cheap meals, they play an important role in neighbourhoods marred by
2030-581: The No. 99 Popeyes truck at Martinsville Speedway , and the company also sponsored Brennan Poole and Vizion Motorsports for that year's Truck Series season finale at Homestead–Miami Speedway . Popeyes has made use of various slogans in television advertisements , most notably "Love that chicken from Popeyes". Some international franchises, such as the ones located in Germany and Japan , are located only on US military installations and are generally not accessible to
2100-666: The Popeye characters. The name is spelled "Popeyes", without the apostrophe commonly used by other restaurant chains such as McDonald's and Hardee's . Copeland claimed facetiously that he was "too poor" to afford an apostrophe. Popeyes serves chicken dishes in mild and spicy flavors and offers sides such as red beans and rice, Cajun fries , mashed potatoes with Cajun-style gravy, Cajun rice , macaroni & cheese , biscuits , and coleslaw . In addition to chicken, Popeyes also serves seafood entrées such as shrimp and catfish. On October 30, 2006, AFC announced that Popeyes planned to introduce
2170-414: The US on August 12, 2019, but had some advance openings at the beginning of 2019. The marketing campaign, designed by advertising agency GSD&M started on August 12, 2019, with a tweet on Popeyes' Twitter feed. The new sandwich went viral immediately and prompted responses from nearly every fast food chain including McDonald's , Chick-Fil-A, and Wendy's . Popeyes reported a 103% increase in traffic in
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2240-530: The United Kingdom and Canada is not so uniform. Sometimes the apostrophe is omitted in the names of clubs, societies, and other organizations, even though the standard principles seem to require it: Country Women's Association , but International Aviation Womens Association ; Magistrates' Court of Victoria , but Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union . Usage is variable and inconsistent. Style guides typically advise consulting an official source for
2310-455: The United Kingdom has Bishop's Stortford , Bishop's Castle and King's Lynn (among many others) but St Albans , St Andrews and St Helens . London Underground's Piccadilly line has the adjacent stations of Earl's Court in Earl's Court and Barons Court . These names were mainly fixed in form many years before grammatical rules were fully standardised. While Newcastle United play football at
2380-462: The apostrophe comes first, e.g. one's ; everyone's ; somebody's , nobody else's , etc., while the apostrophe follows the s in plural forms as with nouns: the others' complaints . The possessive of it was originally it's , in contrast to the modern its . The apostrophe was dropped by the early 19th century. Authorities are now unanimous that it's can be only a contraction of it is or it has . Despite this, adding an unnecessary apostrophe
2450-400: The apostrophe in place of the elisioned "e" could lead to singular and plural possessives of a given word having the exact same spelling. The solution was to use an apostrophe after the plural "s" (as in "girls' dresses"). However, this was not universally accepted until the mid-19th century. Plurals not ending in -s keep the -'s marker, such as "children's toys, the men's toilet", since there
2520-420: The apostrophe of plurality only for lowercase letters. Sometimes, adding just s rather than 's may leave meaning ambiguous or presentation inelegant. However, an apostrophe is not always the preferred solution. APA style requires the use of italics instead of an apostrophe: p s, n s, etc. In the phrase dos and don'ts , most modern style guides disparage spelling the first word as do's . However, there
2590-456: The apostrophe originally marked the loss of the old "e" (for example, lambes became lamb's ). Its use for indicating plural "possessive" forms was not standard before the middle of the 19th century. For most singular nouns the ending " 's" is added; e.g., "the cat's whiskers". When the noun is a normal plural, with an added "s", no extra "s" is added in the possessive, and it is pronounced accordingly; so "the neighbours' garden" (there
2660-442: The apostrophe when there is an s sound before sake : for morality's sake , but for convenience sake . The English possessive of French nouns ending in a silent s , x , or z is addressed by various style guides. Certainly a sibilant is pronounced in examples like Descartes's and Dumas's ; the question addressed here is whether s needs to be added. Similar examples with x or z : Sauce Périgueux 's main ingredient
2730-572: The apostrophe. Names based on a first name are more likely to take an apostrophe, but this is not always the case. Some business names may inadvertently spell a different name if the name with an s at the end is also a name, such as Parson. A small activist group called the Apostrophe Protection Society has campaigned for large retailers such as Harrods, Currys , and Selfridges to reinstate their missing punctuation. A spokesperson for Barclays PLC stated, "It has just disappeared over
2800-523: The chicken sandwich would return to locations across the US on November 3. Popeyes chicken sandwich is made of buttermilk-battered white meat on a brioche bun along with pickles and mayonnaise or spicy Cajun spread. A single sandwich contains 700 calories (2,900 J), 42 grams (1.5 oz) of fat, 14 grams (0.49 oz) of saturated fat, 1,443 milligrams (22.27 gr) of sodium, and 28 net grams of protein. In September 2020, Popeyes' chicken sandwich went on sale in Canada. The restaurants' exteriors have
2870-524: The company's early brand became deeply tied to the cartoon star with its sponsorship of the Popeye & Pals children's show in New Orleans, and the character appeared on items from packaging to racing boats. The chain later acquired rights to use Popeye the Sailor for marketing and used this for 35 years. In late November 2012, AFC announced the mutual termination of their licensing contract with King Features Syndicate , effectively ending their association with
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2940-443: The control of Al Copeland and his estate after the creditor sale of Popeyes to AFC. Popeyes had continued to license the seasonings, recipes, and techniques from DF&S for a yearly 'spice royalty', before buying them outright for $ 43 million. DF&S remains the main supplier for Popeyes until at least 2029. On February 21, 2017, Restaurant Brands International announced a deal to buy Popeyes for US$ 1.8 billion. On March 27, 2017,
3010-433: The days following the launch of the sandwich. The sandwich helped Popeyes gather an estimated $ 23 million in free publicity since its launch. Popeyes stores routinely sold out of the sandwich and experienced long lines, and a man outside of a Maryland Popeyes chain was stabbed to death during a dispute over a cutting in line for a chicken sandwich. Locations across the US were supposed to have enough materials to last them until
3080-407: The deal closed with RBI purchasing Popeyes at $ 79 per share via Orange, Inc, an indirect subsidiary of RBI. Alvin C. Copeland claimed he named the stores after the fictional detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (portrayed by Gene Hackman ) in the 1971 film The French Connection , which came out a year before the chain was founded, and not the comic strip character Popeye the Sailor . However,
3150-564: The end of September. Instead, restaurants were almost entirely sold out after less than two weeks. On August 27, approximately two weeks after the launch, Popeyes announced that it had officially sold out of the chicken sandwich across the country. One person in Tennessee sued Popeyes, claiming that his inability to get the sandwich has caused him to be "hustled out of money", making Popeyes guilty of "false advertising" along with "deceptive business practices". On October 28, 2019, Popeyes announced that
3220-782: The first restaurant in the latter country, locating at Westfield Stratford City opening on November 20, 2021. Restaurant Brands International signed a master franchise and development agreement with Indian company Jubilant FoodWorks on March 24, 2021, to operate Popeyes restaurants in India , Bangladesh , Nepal and Bhutan . The first Popeyes restaurant in South Asia opened in Bambalapitiya , Sri Lanka on February 25, 2021. In December 2020, Popeyes announced that it would be closing all locations in South Korea due to poor sales partially attributed to
3290-460: The impacts of austerity and other government policies. Other popular UK chicken brands include Chicken Cottage , Morley's , and Dixy Chicken . Apostrophe The apostrophe ( ' or ’ ) is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets. In English, the apostrophe is used for three basic purposes: It
3360-541: The largest, fastest growing and most diverse fried chicken markets in the world, with about 1,000 individual brands and 1,700 outlets. Shop signs are commonly designed in a red, white and blue colour scheme, and include a drawing or cartoon of a chicken, as well as a reference to the Southern United States . Especially popular in poor and ethnic minority neighbourhoods, fried chicken restaurants have been criticised for contributing to urban blight . For instance,
3430-637: The last store in Puri Indah Mall, West Jakarta closed in 2011. Popeyes returned to Indonesia under PT Sari Chicken Indonesia, an affiliate of Mitra Adiperkasa and opened its first store in Skyline Building, Central Jakarta on December 23, 2022. In August 2023, British private equity firm TDR Capital invested £ 50 million into Popeyes UK. In 2024, Popeyes announced that it would be opening stores in New Zealand and Taiwan later that year. It forced
3500-459: The letter "e" was not omitted (as in "the gate's height"). This was regarded as representing not the elision of the "e" in the "-e" or "-es" ending of the word being pluralized, but the elision of the "e" from the Old English genitive singular inflection "-es". The plural genitive did not use the "-es" inflection, and since many plural forms already consisted of the "-s" or "-es" ending, using
3570-644: The local civilian public. Popeyes arrived in the Philippines in 2001 but left in 2007 due to a problem with the franchisor; it later returned with a new deal with Kuya J Group in 2018 and opened its first branch in Pasig on May 19, 2019. Popeyes opened their first store in China on May 15, 2020, and in March 2021, it announced plans to open stores in Mexico and the United Kingdom , with
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#17330858291133640-487: The new parent company for Popeyes and Church's. AFC went public in 2001 with initial public offering (IPO) of $ 142,818,479, and began trading on the NASDAQ under ticker symbol AFCE. On December 29, 2004, AFC sold Church's to Arcapita (formerly Crescent Capital Investments) retaining Popeyes. On August 8, 2000, Popeyes announced a franchise development plan/agreement that included 35 new restaurant locations around Australia in
3710-479: The noun ending "-es", which marked either plurals or possessives, also known as genitives (see Possessive apostrophe , below) . An apostrophe followed by "s" was often used to mark a plural; specifically, the Oxford Companion to the English Language notes that: There was formerly a respectable tradition (17th to 19th centuries) of using the apostrophe for noun plurals, especially in loanwords ending in
3780-603: The only use of the case was to show possession [...] Simply changing the name of the genitive does not change or eliminate any of its multiple functions. This dictionary also cites a study that found that only 40% of the possessive forms were used to indicate actual possession. The modern spelling convention distinguishes possessive singular forms ("Bernadette's", "flower's", "glass's", "one's") from simple plural forms ("Bernadettes", "flowers", "glasses", "ones"), and both of those from possessive plural forms ("Bernadettes ' ", "flowers ' ", "glasses ' ", "ones ' "). For example,
3850-462: The plural of abbreviations containing more than one period", so G.M.'s is preferred to G.M.s . The Oxford Companion to the English Language condones V.I.P.'s , VIP's , and VIPs equally. For single lowercase letters, pluralization with 's is usual. Many guides recommend apostrophes whether the single letters are lowercase (as in " minding your p's and q's ") or uppercase (as in "A's and S's"). The Chicago Manual of Style recommends
3920-534: The restaurant four days later as Popeyes Mighty Good Chicken. By 1975, the company had been renamed as Popeyes Famous Fried Chicken. Copeland started franchising his restaurant in 1976, beginning in Louisiana. The chain expanded to Canada in 1984, and opened its 500th restaurant in 1985. B. P. Newman of Laredo, Texas , acquired several franchises in Texas and surrounding states. Two hundred additional locations were added during
3990-430: The school does not own/possess the headmaster, men do not own/possess the department, and tomorrow does not/will not own the weather. In the words of Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage : The argument is a case of fooling oneself with one's own terminology. After the 18th-century grammarians began to refer to the genitive case as the possessive case, grammarians and other commentators got it into their heads that
4060-573: The standard form of the name (as one would do if uncertain about other aspects of the spelling of the name); some tend towards greater prescriptiveness, for or against such an apostrophe. As the case of womens shows, it is not possible to analyze these forms simply as non-possessive plurals, since women is the only correct plural form of woman . Where a business name is based on a family name it should in theory take an apostrophe, but many leave it out (contrast Sainsbury's with Harrods ). In recent times there has been an increasing tendency to drop
4130-507: The standard principle have included the following: Although less common, some contemporary writers still follow the older practice of omitting the second s in some cases ending with a sibilant, but usually not when written -x or -xe . The Associated Press Stylebook recommends or allows the practice of omitting the additional "s" in proper nouns ending with an "s", but not in words ending with other sibilants ("z" and "x"). The 15th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style had recommended
4200-522: The time) when it was elided before a vowel, as in un' heure . Modern French orthography has restored the spelling une heure . From the 16th century, following French practice, the apostrophe was used when a vowel letter was omitted either because of incidental elision ("I'm" for "I am") or because the letter no longer represented a sound ("lov'd" for "loved"). English spelling retained many inflections that were not pronounced as syllables , notably verb endings ("-est", "-eth", "-es", "-ed") and
4270-461: The trademark "Love That Chicken" jingle sung by New Orleans funk and R&B musician Dr. John . In 2009, Popeyes introduced "Annie the Chicken Queen", a fictitious, upbeat, African-American Popeyes chef played by actress Deidrie Henry . The character is meant to be "honest, vibrant, youthful and authentic" according to Dick Lynch, Popeyes Chief Marketing Officer. "Everyone has a relative or
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#17330858291134340-420: The traditional practice, which included providing for several exceptions to accommodate spoken usage such as the omission of the extra s after a polysyllabic word ending in a sibilant, but the 16th edition no longer recommends omitting the possessive "s". Similar examples of notable names ending in an s that are often given a possessive apostrophe with no additional s include Dickens and Williams . There
4410-434: The two forms. Some publishers' style guides, however, make a distinction, assigning the "segregatory" (or "distributive") meaning to the form "John's and Mary's" and the "combinatorial" (or "joint") meaning to the form "John and Mary's". A third alternative is a construction of the form "Jack's children and Jill's", which is always distributive, i.e. it designates the combined set of Jack's children and Jill's children. When
4480-547: The use of possessive apostrophes since 1890 so as not to show ownership of the place. Only five names of natural features in the US are officially spelled with a genitive apostrophe: Martha's Vineyard ; Ike's Point , New Jersey; John E's Pond , Rhode Island; Carlos Elmer's Joshua View , Arizona; and Clark's Mountain , Oregon. Some municipalities, originally incorporated using the apostrophe, have dropped it in accordance with this policy; Taylors Falls in Minnesota, for example,
4550-525: The word "glass's" is the singular possessive form of the noun "glass". The plural form of "glass" is "glasses" and the plural possessive form is, therefore, "glasses ' ". One would therefore say "I drank the glass's contents" to indicate drinking a drink, but "I drank the glasses' contents" after finishing the second drink. For singular forms, the modern possessive or genitive inflection is a survival from certain genitive inflections in Old English, for which
4620-461: The years. Barclays is no longer associated with the family name." Further confusion can be caused by businesses whose names look as if they should be pronounced differently without an apostrophe, such as Paulos Circus, and other companies that leave the apostrophe out of their logos but include it in written text, such as Cadwalader's . An apostrophe is commonly used to indicate omitted characters, normally letters: Following an evolution in usage in
4690-583: Was 'exotic primitive' ..." (with nearby sibilants -ce- in noces and s- in singular ). Compare treatment of other titles, above . Guides typically seek a principle that will yield uniformity, even for foreign words that fit awkwardly with standard English punctuation. Place names in the United States do not use the possessive apostrophe on federal maps and signs. The United States Board on Geographic Names , which has responsibility for formal naming of municipalities and geographic features, has deprecated
4760-402: Was first used by Pietro Bembo in his edition of De Aetna (1496). It was introduced into English in the 16th century in imitation of French practice. Introduced by Geoffroy Tory (1529), the apostrophe was used in place of a vowel letter to indicate elision (as in l'heure in place of la heure ). It was also frequently used in place of a final "e" (which was still pronounced at
4830-488: Was no risk of ambiguity. The apostrophe is used in English to indicate what is, for historical reasons, misleadingly called the possessive case in the English language. This case was called the genitive until the 18th century and, like the genitive case in other languages, expresses relationships other than possession . For example, in the expressions "the school's headmaster", "the men's department", and "tomorrow's weather",
4900-410: Was originally incorporated as "Taylor's Falls". On the state level, the federal policy is not always followed: Vermont 's official state website has a page on Camel's Hump State Forest . Australia's Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping also has a no-apostrophe policy, a practice it says goes back to the 1900s and which is generally followed around the country. On the other hand,
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