{"id":527,"date":"2011-06-19T03:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T07:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/day-119-happy-fathers-day\/"},"modified":"2015-08-14T21:43:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T01:43:19","slug":"day-119-happy-fathers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/day-119-happy-fathers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"day 119: happy father\u2019s day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"line-height: 140%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 140%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;\">Father\u2019s Day presents some of the same challenges in writing as Mother\u2019s Day. Like Mother\u2019s Day, Father\u2019s Day is written with a capital letter at the beginning of each word\u2014and is written as a day for the singular father\u2014not plural (fathers). <\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 140%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 140%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;\">The \u201cofficial\u201d take on that goes like this (according to encyclopedias as well as the Chicago Manual of Style):<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 140%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 140%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;\"><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN;\">\u201cAlthough the name of the event is usually understood as a plural possessive (i.e. \u2018day belonging to fathers\u2019), which would under normal English punctuation guidelines be spelled \u2018Fathers&#8217; Day,\u2019 the most common spelling is \u2018Father&#8217;s Day,\u2019 as if it were a singular possessive (i.e. \u2018day belonging to Father\u2019). In the United States, Dodd used the \u2018Fathers&#8217; Day\u2019 spelling on her original petition for the holiday, but the spelling \u2018Father&#8217;s Day\u2019 was already used in 1913 when a bill was introduced to the U.S. Congress as the first attempt to establish the holiday<u><sup><span style=\"color: blue;\">, <\/span><\/sup><\/u>and it was still spelled the same way when its creator was commended in 2008 by the United States Congress.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 140%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 140%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;\"><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN;\">So\u2026Happy Father\u2019s day to my father, my children\u2019s father\u2014and all fathers\u2014regardless of whether it is written in a singular or plural possessive manner!<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father\u2019s Day presents some of the same challenges in writing as Mother\u2019s Day. Like Mother\u2019s Day, Father\u2019s Day is written with a capital letter at the beginning of each word\u2014and is written as a day for the singular father\u2014not plural (fathers). 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