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[gnomi]

[Poll #1418136]

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[shsilver.livejournal.com]

As and Bs vs. A's and B's makes me ask how you designate possessive of two people:

Jack's and Jill's or Jack and Jill's

And what is the possessive of an entity that has a possessive name already: McDonald's's?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I say Jack's and Jill's. The box belongs to Jack and Jill. It is Jack's and Jill's box.

I've seen "McDonald's'," but that makes me twitch. Almost all of the options make me twitch. I tend toward "belonging to McDonald's."

[tober.livejournal.com]

I feel that there is a difference between "Jack and Jill's" and "Jack's and Jill's" and that depending on circumstances either could be correct. For example, as far as I am concerned, if Jack and Jill live in a house together then that is "Jack and Jill's house" whereas if Jack and Jill each have some (not necessarily shared) pencils then those are "Jack's and Jill's pencils" or alternately but much more awkwardly "Jack's pencils and Jill's pencils."

[violetcheetah.livejournal.com]

I believe you have nailed Chicago style exactly. I like Chicago for the most part, because they have logical reasons for most of their rules.