Friday, November 29, 2024

In-Laws

I use Daughters-in-law for the plural and Daughter-in-law's for the possessive. I just noticed that this frees me up to use both if I need to, as in "my Brothers-in-law's behavior at Thanksgiving in the old days at Scituate." But I didn't choose those forms for that reason. It's based purely on what sounds right to my ear.

Just answering the important questions for you.

4 comments:

Grim said...

Sergeants Major everywhere will appreciate your adoption of the Sergeant Major’s form of address.

Christopher B said...

Attorneys General as well

Thomas Doubting said...

The French no doubt approve of your construction, but shouldn't the plural be Brothers-in-laws'?

Assistant Village Idiot said...

Yep. Plural possessive should have the apostrophe after. Thanks.