Showing posts with label spelling. Show all posts
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Monday, February 20, 2012

Is It Just One President? Or All of 'Em?

Happy President's Day!

That's a typo.  I know, I'm a word nerd.  I get that.  In fact, I like it more than a little bit.  When I was a kid, this holiday was called George Washington Day.  I had a little friend whose birthday fell on this day one year, so her mom planned a George Washington themed birthday party.  Out of all the birthday parties I attended as a kid, why is it that this is one of the few that stand out?  No idea.  But, I do remember coloring apples, bobbing for apples and eating apple pie (so crafty that mom, no?).

But I digress, at some point along the way, the holiday's moniker was changed to include all presidents (or is it just Washington and Jefferson?  Or just all the "good ones"?).  Hence:  President's Day.  But wait!  The way this is spelled assumes one singular president, possessive.  It should read "Presidents' Day" - plural, possessive.  Okay, that's our grammar lesson for today, folks.   No more.  I promise.

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