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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Pluralized last name

My last name is Hayes and we are trying to fill out an address plaque. The plaque says: Welcome to the Lake
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The Hayes's, The Hayes' or The Hayeses
Please help!
Thank you,
Kim
  

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Unfortunately (since to me it's the worst looking), the name of your family as a group is ' the Hayeses '. If you use it in a possessive form, it gets even worse: the Hayeses' house . If I were you, I would cast your plaque so that your family name is used adjectivally: The Hayes House/Home .

— Mister Micawber

  • Unfortunately (since to me it's the worst looking), the name of your family as a group is ' the Hayeses '.
  • If you use it in a possessive form, it gets even worse: the Hayeses' house .
  • If I were you, I would cast your plaque so that your family name is used adjectivally: The Hayes House/Home .
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Unfortunately (since to me it's the worst looking), the name of your family as a group is 'the Hayeses'. If you use it in a possessive form, it gets even worse: the Hayeses' house.

If I were you, I would cast your plaque so that your family name is used adjectivally: The Hayes House/Home.
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You have two steps:
First, find the plural. You are talking about more than one person whose name is Hayes. So the plural is Hayeses.
Next, make it possessive. In this case, because of the double "s" sound already found in the name, I would just add the apostrophe: Hayeses'
However, are you sure this is possessive? Because you are not saying what is possessed.
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Is a deed poll out of the question?
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