Oh, and on cleaners v. cleaner’s, one would assume that more than one person works there and does the cleaning.
Magee-Womens Hospital was named after Elizbeth Steel Magee, according to this.
And yet they offer no explanation why. Surely they must realize that their idiosyncratic “hyphen/no apostrophe” arrangement is bizarre and against all the laws of punctuation, or they wouldn’t need to caution against using the conventional form.
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Magee-Womens Hospital was named after Elizbeth Steel Magee, according to this.
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And as the article’s title reveals, yet another poor bastard of a copy editor has been lured into their weird trap. “Of course it’s ‘Magee Women’s Hospital!’” No, copy editor; you forgot to anticipate the incomprehensible mind games that are apparently characteristic of Pittsburgh women, and now you can never trust your own judgment again. Is Magee-Womens Hospital part of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center… or perhaps it’s the “University-of-Pitt’sburgh (Medical) Center?” You can’t be sure! You can’t be sure of anything anymore.
Maybe Elizabeth Steel Magee was just a really poor writer? Or maybe she went through life haunted by inappropriate hyphenation of her own name, and this was her revenge.