I’ve done the bit for years… President’s Day, Presidents’ Day, Washington-Lincoln Day… you get the idea. It’s funny because everyone is right and everyone is wrong all at the same time. I usually go with “Presidents’ Day,” although my own state–that would be Virginia–still calls it George Washington Day. (A hundred and sixty-one years after the Civil War, many people ’round these parts still don’t take too kindly to Mr. Lincoln.)

Five years ago I noted that officially Mother’s Day is spelled as such. The holiday’s founder, a Ms. Anna Jarvis really did codify it as such back in 1912. A singular possessive, celebrating one’s own mother.

I’ve evolved on my opinion of farmers market. I used to write “farmers’ market,” but now I’m beyond thinking it’s any one farmer’s market, or a consortium of farmers that conduct a market. “Farmers” is simply an adjective modifying “market,” rendering the apostrophe unnecessary. (I’m usually the apostrophe apologist, yet here I am suggesting it vanish.)

I think I’m going to start doing the same for Presidents Day. And dang I’d do the same for Mothers but for the aforementioned Ms. Jarvis.

Could have saved us a lot of trouble a century later.

Keep this in mind, everybody.