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Say you would open an inn primarily for people who build things.

Would that be called the "Builder's Inn" or the "Builders Inn"?

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    The trend nowadays is to use the plural attributive construction. There are probably more working mens clubs than working men's clubs, and your example doesn't even need a novel word. There are several threads dealing with the dropping of what was once considered an obligatory apostrophe. / Though the singular form is common for attributive noun usage, it wouldn't work at all well here. Plural-form attributive nouns are not verboten (sports club / sports car / systems analyst). – Edwin Ashworth Nov 05 '19 at 14:11
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    Possible duplicate of Is it correct to say "I write children books" (not possessive case)?. (It's perhaps worth pointing out that names can be arbitrarily chosen; one hoot named theirs "The Misplaced Apostrophe's".) – Edwin Ashworth Nov 05 '19 at 14:16
  • Oh sorry, I didn't know the proper terminology (possessive case), so I didn't find anything online (I should add I'm non-native) Thanks for pointing me towards that direction! And of course, names can be arbitrarily chosen - I was mostly wondering whether there was a specific general consent for Inns, given that they typically have names like this. I.e. "Adventurer's Inn" – Folling Nov 05 '19 at 21:37
  • On Google, look up <>, <>, <> etc (using double inverted commas rather than angle brackets, and both with and without apostrophes). For Miners Arms : Miner's Arms, the ratio of hits is over 10:1. – Edwin Ashworth Nov 06 '19 at 16:47
  • I updated the links for duplicate questions to include several that are related, and I removed the one the pointed to a closed question. – Kit Z. Fox Nov 21 '19 at 18:38

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