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What is the posessive form of "McDonald's?"

MickeyDee's's
1 (16.7%)
McDonald's'
4 (66.7%)
McDonald's's's's's
1 (16.7%)
MickeyDee's's
0 (0%)

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Offline Primal Curve

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« on: July 06, 2005, 01:47:15 PM »
Seriously. This is so seriously important that the seriousness is full of seriosity.
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« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2005, 01:50:53 PM »
Ugh. They're all so ugly. I picked the least ugly one (just one extra apostrophe). Personally, I'd try to avoid using the possessive forms of such names if at all possible.
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« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2005, 02:02:52 PM »
I could always start up a poll asking for the plural form. :P
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« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2005, 02:06:29 PM »
I would go Latin and say "The horrid food-like products of the McDonald's Corporation."
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« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2005, 02:19:14 PM »
Latin used to have a real possessive case like English. Romance languages mostly don't, though. But yeah, that's what I meant by avoiding the plural form.
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« Reply #5 on: July 06, 2005, 02:22:14 PM »
I thought it would be "McDonald's".
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« Reply #6 on: July 06, 2005, 02:23:19 PM »
Actually, that's what I would do. And probably nobody would notice the difference.
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« Reply #7 on: July 06, 2005, 02:25:44 PM »
You could always claim that it's an attributive noun instead of a possessive.
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« Reply #8 on: July 06, 2005, 02:37:48 PM »
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Actually, that's what I would do. And probably nobody would notice the difference.
I didn't know this forum was about being lazy. I thought you guys were here to further knowledge of the greatnicity of the English langooage.
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« Reply #9 on: July 06, 2005, 02:40:37 PM »
And sometimes English is great because it allows you to be efficient (read: lazy).
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