Is it "Father's Day" or "Fathers' Day"?

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@wolfpup

Thanks for the advice. I guess you missed this post of mine from back in January…

Yes, I had. But that led me to this post, also in that thread.

@wolfpup

Agreed, in that particular case [hung vs. hanged]. But one is more correct than the other, and there really is a point to English grammar. As I travel through cyberspace and encounter more and more illiterates whose attempts at elucidation straddle the boundary of incomprehensible, and require an inordinate amount of my own effort merely to render their incoherent ramblings into an argument that is wrong, I find that ungrammatical language is basically just an egregious form of rudeness. At its core, it says that you’d rather be lazy than help your fellow man understand what the hell you are saying.

So. You’re 16 and you just discovered Bill Bryson, of all people, and now are very full of yourself. (Bryson, you’ll find out if you hang around here longer, is roundly denouncedfor Mother Tongue and every single book he’s ever written as being full of mistakes, idiocies, and general flatulence.)

Read Guy Deutscher. Or David Crystal. Go and dig up an old copy of Jim Quinn’s American Tongue and Cheek. Then go on to more technical works. Your blood pressure will go down and people will stop sidling away from you at parties.

But whatever you do, please, and I mean this sincerely, do not post on the subject of English again while you still believe that the difference in usage between hung and hanged is a matter of grammar.