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If the wife of the Verger has a favourite pew is it the ‘Verger’s wife’s favourite pew’? I think it is, but the double apostrophes make me nervous. Help in the comments would be much appreciated.
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That looks right to me.
“Vergers’ wife’s …” would be wrong as it says that the woman in question is the wife of more than one verger.
“Verger’s wifes’ …” is just wrong on so many levels.
“Vergers’ wifes’ …” should be “vergers’ wives’ …” (and assumes that all the wives of the said vergers happened to favour the same pew, but we all know how dangerous assumptions can be).
Thank you Jack.
You’re right – the last thing I wanted to do was give the impression that there are four vergers each with six wives, as then the situation becomes absurd as the pew quite clearly wouldn’t be long enough.
Would it be easier if you just said her name? or called her Mrs Verger? or something? sorry if I’m missing the point.
Alice – yes, ordinarily it would. But these are not real Vergers and Mrs Vergers but rather the text of a cartoon.
Which, incidentally, has been sent off with the punctuation above.
Have you read my blog, it’s no good asking me about grammer!
It’s right. Apart from the fact that our verger is a woman and has a husband not a wife!
