Plural possessive for the name Miles?
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Anonymous
| Would it be Mile’s or Miles’? I tried Google, but I’m so confused. Thank you for any help. |
Anonymous
| The latter. |
Anonymous
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Never Mile’s.
“Miles'” is the correct possessive form when following the AP Stylebook. “Miles’ book” is correct according to AP rules. “Miles’s” is the correct possessive form when following any other style guide (like The Chicago Manual of Style). “Miles’s family” is used with these rules. |
Anonymous
Wouldn’t those be the singular possessives? |
Anonymous
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The last name is Miles and you're trying to say like "the house that belongs to multiple members of the family Miles?
That would be Mileses': https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2007/05/joneses.html |
Anonymous
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Mileses’
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Anonymous
| Op here. First name is Miles. Trying to write things like Miles’s birthday party, Miles’s siblings, Miles’s toys, etc. |
Anonymous
Singular possessive, because Miles is singular. Miles's |
Anonymous
| The Miles’ or The Miles’s |
Anonymous
| Please don’t write Mile’s. That would be very embarrassing. |
Anonymous
No. OP shared it’s a first name. |
Anonymous
Sorry, you said plural. Since Miles is one kid, it’s singular, not a last name then omit the the. |
Anonymous
| Miles isn’t plural. You may not like it, but names that end is S should always be treated like Miles’s. |
Anonymous
How many Mileses are there? The possessive would be Miles’s Per pretty much all style books. But plural possessive would be Miles’ Although again, how many Mileses are we talking about? |
Anonymous
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Miles's is most common.
We have a Charles and always use Charles's for possessive. |