The Janitor Gets it Right
rogersgeorge on October 14th, 2019
The rule he gets right has to do with the apostrophe when you want to make a word possessive.
If the word you want to make possessive ends in “s,” just add an apostrophe; don’t add another “s.”
Last panel:
But you pronounce the possessive as if that second “s” were there! So it sounds like “Joneses.”
A head locker room attendant is a janitor, right?
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