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Possessive of a word that's already possessive?
I ran into this issue today. Referring to Queen's University, how would you say "I've been accepted to Queen's MA program?"
Would you move the apostrophe over to make it Queens'?
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Vian Esterhuizen
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Duplicate. – Kosmonaut Mar 02 '11 at 22:38
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My apologies, I tried a search for similar questions but I wasn't sure how to phrase my query to get the results I want. – Vian Esterhuizen Mar 02 '11 at 22:43
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That's okay. No big deal :) – Kosmonaut Mar 02 '11 at 22:51
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2It would have been so much easier if you'd gone the engineering route -- "I've been dyed purple" is quite a bit less grammatically complicated. – bye Mar 02 '11 at 23:27
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1I've edited the older question's title to make it more generic, and thus hopefully easier to find. – Marthaª Mar 02 '11 at 23:56
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Well, we would wind up with "Queen's's", which is just not happening, so I would studiously avoid the issue by saying "I've been accepted to Queen's University's MA program" or "I've been accepted to the MA program at Queen's".
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1Sidestepping is definitely the way to go. Another possible alternative is "I've been accepted to the Queen's University MA program". – John Y Mar 02 '11 at 22:41
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It seems that workarounds are the only way to deal with this. Thanks all. – Vian Esterhuizen Mar 02 '11 at 22:44