{"id":723,"date":"2011-02-21T02:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/day-46-happy-presidents-day-or-presidents-day-or-presidents-day\/"},"modified":"2015-09-11T14:56:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T18:56:02","slug":"day-46-happy-presidents-day-or-presidents-day-or-presidents-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/day-46-happy-presidents-day-or-presidents-day-or-presidents-day\/","title":{"rendered":"day 46: happy presidents’ day or president’s day or presidents day?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tomorrow is Presidents’ Day. Or is that Presidents Day? Or President’s Day?<\/span><\/p>\n Well….it depends on which expert you ask! Here is the run down:<\/span><\/p>\n 1. It is NOT President’s Day<\/span> 2. Some say it is Presidents’ Day<\/span> 3. Some say it is Presidents Day<\/span> So there you have it! More subjectivity in our English language. Happy Presidents’ Day! And Happy Presidents Day!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tomorrow is Presidents’ Day. Or is that Presidents Day? Or President’s Day? Well….it depends on which expert you ask! Here is the run down: 1. It is NOT President’s Day a. President’s denotes one President…and this holiday honors Washington and Lincoln both…as well as all presidents b. President’s Day says that it is the day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[640,82,632,183],"tags":[195,193,150],"yoast_head":"\n
a. President’s denotes one President…and this holiday honors Washington and Lincoln both…as well as all presidents<\/span>
b. President’s Day says that it is the day that belongs to one President (singular)<\/span>
c. It follows the rule of writing the noun first (President) then if the word does NOT end in s, put apostrophe s (President’s Day)<\/span><\/p>\n
a. The Gregg Reference Manual <\/em>(my favorite handbook) cites it as such<\/span>
b. This denotes many presidents all owning one day (or at least Lincoln and Washington)<\/span>
c. It follows the rule of writing the noun first (Presidents) then if the word ends in s, put an apostrophe on the outside of the s<\/span>
d. This is the correct way to show possession of one thing to more than one “owner”<\/span><\/p>\n
a. The Associated Press Stylebook <\/em>cites is as such<\/span>
b. This method does not denote possession, but rather uses the word President as an adjective (actually a “proper adjective” in that it is an adjective made from a proper noun–some of the time–we will not even get into whether it is (President) or isn’t (president) in this post!)<\/span>
c. This is like saying that, that is a Grisham book (as opposed to a book that Grisham owns–Grisham’s book), and it is certainly not incorrect<\/span><\/p>\n