Sensitive subject. I learned today that there are only five
place names in the whole of America
that take possessive apostrophes (as in Martha’s Vineyard.)
If English greengrocers had their way, there’d be a sixth:
Niagara Fall’s.
English greengrocers are legendary for their (often, I suspect,
mischievous) misuse of the possessive apostrophe. It's all about working class rebellion.
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