Best usage for a house/family sign: apostrophe or no?

In My Humble Opinion
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[QUOTE=robby]
What if your last name ends in an “s”, like “Baggins”?

“The Bagginses”? :rolleyes:

(Yes, this is a serious question.)
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Yes, as I mentioned above, " The Joneses’ " would be correct.

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The correct sign would say:

Bag End.

Tris

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[QUOTE=gigi]
Yes, as I mentioned above, " The Joneses’ " would be correct.
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Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but shouldn’t this be Baggins’ and Jones’?

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[QUOTE=Scarlett67]
Yes, Bagginses it is (for the plural), so put away that rolleyes. Possessive plural would be “the Bagginses’ house.”
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OK, Gollum, if my last name ended in “s” there’s no way I’d be putting that on a mailbox.

(Actually, my last name does end in “s”. For a housewarming gift, we once got something with the equivalent of The Baggins’. At lease it wasn’t the equivalent of The Baggin’s.)

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[QUOTE=robby]
What if your last name ends in an “s”, like “Baggins”?
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For heaven’s sake, not “The Baggin’s”!

That’s the kind of thing that makes right-thinking people weep for hours.

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[QUOTE=robby]
OK, Gollum, if my last name ended in “s” there’s no way I’d be putting that on a mailbox.
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You don’t have to. Just put “Baggins.”