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The solution was to use an apostrophe after the plural "s" (as in "girls' dresses"). However, this was not universally accepted until the mid-19th century. [4] Plurals not ending in -s keep the -'s marker, such as "children's toys, the men's toilet", since there was no risk of ambiguity.
Plural nouns not ending in “s” need both an apostrophe and “s”: “The children’s toys.” ... If the subject of the sentence is already plural, however, add the apostrophe after the ...
The possessive form of an English noun, or more generally a noun phrase, is made by suffixing a morpheme which is represented orthographically as ' s (the letter s preceded by an apostrophe), and is pronounced in the same way as the regular English plural ending (e)s: namely, as / ɪ z / when following a sibilant sound (/ s /, / z /, / ʃ /, / ʒ /, / tʃ / or / dʒ /), as / s / when following ...
The plural of individual letters is usually written with -'s: [22] there are two h's in this sentence; mind your p's and q's; dot the i's and cross the t's. Some people extend this use of the apostrophe to other cases, such as plurals of numbers written in figures (e.g. "1990's"), words used as terms (e.g. "his writing uses a lot of but's").
The Associated Press Stylebook says “use only an apostrophe” for sing. ... Debate about possessive proper names ending in S started soon after President Joe Biden cleared the way for Harris to ...
It should properly be girls' basketball, which is the possessive plural. You see girls basketball a lot, but it is not really correct. The difference with women's is that "women", although plural, does not end in an s. The apostrophe for plural possessives applies only when the plural ends in s. --Trovatore 03:04, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
The Chicago Manual of Style (15th edition): "The possessive of most singular nouns is formed by adding an s, and the possessive of plural nouns (except for a few irregular plurals that do not end in s) by adding an apostrophe only...The general rule covers most proper nouns, including names ending in s, x, or z, in both their singular and ...
's, an ending used to form the possessive of English nouns and noun phrases 's, a contraction of the English words is and has 's, a form of the English plural ending, written after single letters and in some other instances Greengrocers' apostrophes, a non-standard manner to form noun plurals