My boss’/boss’s car is the same as mine.

[probus]

Ah, yes, the famous "10 items or less" till sign! It still drives me mad. :argue:

I sympathize, but "10 items or less" is probably here to stay.

 

[Tdol]

Less people feel strongly about it. ;-)

 

[probus]

At the risk of infringing the rule against politics I must repeat this old joke about then-candidate Trump (DJT).

DJT: The less people that know about this, the better.

Adviser: Fewer.

DJT: Ssshhh! You're not supposed to call me that yet.

 

[Rover_KE]

I thought that was going to end:

DJT: The less people that know about this, the fewer.

 

[Tdol]

I don't get the joke. :-(

 

[GoesStation]

I'd write the boss's car. I'd be surprised to see the phrase without the final s.

Here's a headline I just spotted on Slate: "The Hosts Battling to Be Fox News' Next Tucker Carlson". Evidently at least one American editor agrees with TheParser.

 

[jutfrank]

Since we started this thread a few days ago, I've noticed several similar cases in media texts, all concerning Fox News. This from the Huffington Post, via Yahoo News:

Fox News’ Rachel Campos-Duffy just smiled on Tuesday as Navarro ranted and raved about Fauci, calling the nation’s top infectious diseases expert a “sociopath” and the “father” of the coronavirus.

I suppose it does look slightly neater on the page without the extra 's'.

 

[Phaedrus]

It probably wouldn't be a good idea for me to bring up McDonald's's milkshakes or Wendy's's hamburgers right now. I should reconsider.

 

[Tdol]

And is it the grocer's apostrophe or the grocers' apostrophe? Apple's to apples'.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

I don't get the joke. :-(

Donald can't pronounce Fuhrer.

 

[Tarheel]

It's not funny.