Is it only me that goes grrr at this phrase?

jacalpad I know just how you feel about gateaux's – a double offence with both an apostrophe and and an s. I feel the same way whenever I see paninis, given that panini is already plural. The use and then misuse of foreign words when there are perfectly adequate English ones is pretentious and unnecessary.

Nannarose The word coleslaw is derived from Dutch – koolsla, meaning cabbage salad.

A propos decades:why do people insist on pronouncing it "decayed".,wirh the emphasis on the 2nd syllable?

I thought it was The Jones’

Joneses is plural

Apostrophes indicate possession or something missing, never plurals, though they are widely used incorrectly.

So you could refer to the Jones' car, meaning the car of (belonging to) the Joneses.

Or, say, Alec Jones's car.

I'm getting confused now!

Did I mean, when referring to the car belonging to the Joneses, "the Joneses' car"?

I think I did.

I expect the Waleses have several.

If it was Alec's car then perhaps Tess has her own, ie Tess's car

So it would be the Joneses' cars ?

Or, if people prefer the grocer's grammar: the Jones' car's.
Or if more than one grocer...

Oh, Happy New Year

Thanks Kryptonite for engaging with my rant about the decade. (It was late and post-sherry). I'm comfortable with ' we are now in the twenties', which to me is a different thing.
I love this thread.

I always thought ‘Kohl’ was German for cabbage, which amused me when they had an eminent politician by that name. Dare say I have mis-remembered my very rusty German, though.,

Whatever they call it, my own ‘cabbage salad’ is a winter staple here - cabbage , carrots, celery, onion and apple, all chopped or shredded small, with just enough mayonnaise to bind it.
Goes v nicely with cold ham and baked potatoes, guess what we’re having tonight....

rubysong if the new Millennium began in 2000 AD then now is the beginning of a new decade - the Tolerant Twenties.

Of course AD is a moot point too, could have been 3 BC (that wouldn't be right either, would it).

Some say it was 6AD.

Perhaps it's safest to use CE, Current Era.

It is Ne'erday

As this is pedants’ corner Phoenix I think you will find it is New Year’s Eve not New Years Eve .

Thank you absent! And JackyB - I picked up 'come round mine' when I lived in Suffolk!
I feel rather like a magpie, picking up all sorts of odd sayings from places I lived and people I have known - funny how some stick and others don't.
I love hearing different expressions and ways of speaking - some I like and some I don't, but they rarely annoy me the way they do some on here.