'Whites cars' or 'White's cars'

[supercommuter]

Which one of these is the correct grammaticaly?! For a business name

[Pericoloso]

White's cars.

Waits to be corrected.

[Strudul]

Depends on the name.

If the name is "White", then "White's", as they belong to "White"
If the name is "Whites", then "Whites' ", as they belong to "Whites"

[supercommuter]

His name is James White..

I thought it was 'Whites Cars'

Would it make a difference if it wasn't an object and was in fact services, so 'Whites Car repairs'

[RichB]

As it's a business name you can call it what you want. For example Sainsbury's is grammatically correct because the shops belonged to John Sainsbury yet by contrast Woolworths shops (no apostrophe) belonged to FW Woolworth. Perhaps that was because he was American

[gothatway]

supercommuter said:

Which one of these is the correct grammaticaly?! For a business name

Not a good start .. it should read "which (one) of these is grammatically correct ?" Note spelling of grammatically.
Either could be correct, but the first would be less usual, implying a Mr Whites owned or built the cars, whereas the second would relate to a Mr White, which is a much more common name than Whites.

[Strudul]

Doesn't matter what it is, it belongs to him, so White's.

[anonymous-user]

White's.

[SCEtoAUX]

Assuming he doesn't sell vans or motorbikes he might like to call it "Whites only cars".

Oh hang on...

[SCEtoAUX]

What about "Jimmy Whites - Cars on Cue"?

[So]

Strudul said:

Doesn't matter what it is, it belongs to him, so White's.

Ah, but if it's a garage that doesn't sell cars to blacks it would be "Whites' Cars".

[anonymous-user]

Chalkie's Motors.

Thank me later.

[davhill]

Many apostrophe glitches can be based on the broadsheet newspapers. For example, The New York Times
habitually used all capitals for headlines., as follows This caused some confusion, as follows...

CDS:THE FUTURE

Readers had to ask, "What is CDS, where can I find it?" So, the apostrophe became the mark to denote a plural, as in...

CD'S: THE FUTURE

My vey old (wartime) signwriting guide says that apostrophes aren't used with all capitals, so this is correct...

WHITES CARS

In upper and lower case, this is correct BUT WHITE'S CARS is wrong.

White's Cars

Thisis also correct. It means, ' The cars (plural) of White.'

You can have your cake and eat it, Or you could play Bremainer and call it

LES BOLIDES DE MONSIEUR BLANC

INCORPORTING Schwarzen Taxis GmbH

[Riley Blue]

https://www.landsend.co.uk

Wrong...

[supercommuter]

Comprehensive responses as ever..

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