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@CakeLady: Joneses

@CakeLady: My last name ends with an S and I never add an es. I just say from the Jones. Though I think others add es. I'm in the no extra S's camp though! I usually go by the if it makes a z sound you don't need to add an extra s.

@mrs. wagon: I think you're correct and that's all that matters, right?!

@Mrs. Blue: yupperoni

@jedeve: @yoursilverlining: The question @CakeLady: was asking didn't involve possession, though, so it isn't really a question of whether adding an 's' is correct. Merry Christmas from the Jones family is correct, but if you do it the other way it has to be Merry Christmas from the Joneses. Merry Christmas from the Jones does not make sense and is not correct.

@lawbee11: @birdofafeather: @yoursilverlining: @CakeLady:

I think it depends on the name. Mine ends in a Z sound so you shouldn't add an extra es to pluralize. Jones is an exception to that though apparently! I think if we had followed the last line we'd all be happier haha.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/plurals.htm

"When a proper noun ends in an "s" with a hard "z" sound, we don't add any ending to form the plural: "The Chambers are coming to dinner" (not the Chamberses); "The Hodges used to live here" (not the Hodgeses). There are exceptions even to this: we say "The Joneses are coming over," and we'd probably write "The Stevenses are coming, too." A modest proposal: women whose last names end in "s" (pronounced "z") should marry and take the names of men whose last names do not end with that sound, and eventually this problem will disappear."

@autumnlove: that is my bible!