It's Jones', actually. When something is plural and possesive and is a name that ends with an "S" you don't put an "es" after it, you just put an apostrophe and pronounce it like it has an "es" at the end of it.
That's what I was taught, anyway. English is pretty retarded like that.
Sounds like a shining example of the human race, though.
Oddly enough, the structuralists disagree. The example in my textbook treats Jones plural/possessive as Joneses', because of the "e" sound before the sibilant "s".
But it's a bone of contention among grammar geeks that nobody should really give a fuck about.
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That's what I was taught, anyway. English is pretty retarded like that.
Sounds like a shining example of the human race, though.
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But it's a bone of contention among grammar geeks that nobody should really give a fuck about.
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