Jones Beach Water Quality Alerts Are Keeping Swimmers Away This Weekend
The writing of Mr. Jones' indicates possessive but no spoken ez. I have also heard other people who will say (phonetic) "The Jonesesez ornament" or "The Smithsez ornament" especially in the American South and West. The plural of Jones is Joneses, ‐es being added as an indicator of the plurality of a word of which the singular form ends in s, as in dresses or messes. The apposition of the much misused apostrophe to the word Jones does not pluralize it. Yes. "Mrs." and "Jones" are separate words so a space must be placed between them. It may be worth noting that in Commonwealth English, no full-stop is included for abbreviations that consist of the first and last letters of a word, e.g. the American English "Dr. Jones" would be rendered "Dr Jones". The plural form of Mister is Misters, and the abbreviations Mr. and Messrs. respectively (although UK English drops the periods). The odd spelling is because "Messrs." comes from the French "messieurs". So your example would be phrased as: Dear Messrs. Jones, Smith, Bloggs, and Flintstone The abbreviation for addressing more than one Ms. is either "Mses."or "Mss."; note that the abbreviation ... Chris Jones won’t stop advocating for clean water in Iowa. Here’s why:
Palm Beach Post: Chris Jones won’t stop advocating for clean water in Iowa. Here’s why: Chris Jones grew up in Ankeny, Iowa — back when it was a quiet town of no more than 6,000 people and before it became the largest suburb in the Des Moines metro. For Jones, that meant time spent ... Do you capitalize "second" or "third" etc, as in "William Jones the ... I'm Jonesing for a little Ganja, mon... I'm jonesing for a little soul food, brother... (verb) jonesed; jonesing; joneses to have a strong desire or craving for something (Merriam Webster) Where... I've always heard that when talking about stuff belonging to either a Jones or many Jones, you'd write Jones' (pronounced "Joneses"). But recently I've stumbled upon a book which consistently uses Jones's when talking of a single Jones. What's the correct way of using possesives? You would normally call the son of the original William Jones "William Jones, Jr." (Junior). Subsequent descendants would be William Jones III, William Jones IV, etc. Nobody writes "the third" in any formal context.
