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Mister Micawber  +  69516 Sun, 23 Jan 05 10:31 PM

If you wish to indicate the both of you, it needs to be Van Dalfsens' Men's and Womens' Clothing, with the apostrophe after the 's'. That is certainly a plethora of apostrophes, however, and I submit to you that Van Dalfsen Men's and Women's Clothing (with no 's' or apostrophe), a more traditional form, might be preferable.

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My question covers the proper use of the apostrophe. Which of the following two versions is the correct use of the apostrophe?
a) Prue and Antony's Wedding
b) Prue and Antonys' Wedding
Guest, 4 yr 213 days ago
A friend an I are having the following argument:

"What's up?"
is it s'up or 'sup?

thanks, rob.
Mister Micawber  +  106524 Wed, 08 Jun 05 09:29 AM

A little late getting back to you, Rob, sorry. You're pretty much on your own with extreme reductions such as that-- whatever makes it most intelligible for the reader. I think I would transcribe it as 'S up?.

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