February 7, 2006

Presidents' Day and the Apostrophe

I am writing about Presidents' Day today, and as I investigated the history of the holiday, I realized it started out as President's Day (because it honored a single President, George Washington) but then evolved into Presidents' Day because it became a day commemorating many Presidents.

I also learned that Veterans Day has lost its apostrophe. Isn't that interesting? For more apostrophe fun, hop on over to The Apostrophe: Possessed and Dispossessed.


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Posted by Barbara J. Feldman at February 7, 2006 12:10 PM | Comments (0)
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