Talk:ladies'

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Thought we weren't having these possessive cases. What is our policy? bd2412 T 03:49, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

We never voted on it. I think the expectation was that a bot would fill out the American English plural possessive forms like this, as well as the British English forms like ladies's. But nothing was decided one way or the other. --Connel MacKenzie 20:43, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

(By the way, ladies's is not acceptable in UK English. Widsith 08:40, 3 July 2007 (UTC)}

It was established pretty clearly that 's does not actually decline a noun, but is instead a clitic. That's what I thought, anyway... And surely the same applies to the plural form as well? -- Visviva 04:28, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Could we start a vote to get rid of these? Otherwise, we’ll end up with entries like of’s… † Raifʻhār Doremítzwr 14:33, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes, please do. DAVilla 17:55, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Vote started Wiktionary:Votes/pl-2007-07/exclusion of possessive case or go to WT:VOTE.--Williamsayers79 08:54, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for that William Sayers. † Raifʻhār Doremítzwr 13:17, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Isn't this sometimes used to refer to the ladies' restroom? I'll see if I can't find some cites for that... -- Visviva 11:59, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Although grammatically incorrect, I'm not certain I've ever seen toilets for adult females referred to as other than "ladies" (similarly I don't recall seeing "gent's" or "gentlemen's"). Thryduulf 20:39, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

I've added that sense with cites, so keep that. Also I !vote to keep the regular sense, the theory that this is "not a word" is rather obscure and not something that an ESL speaker is likely to appreciate. Kappa 06:11, 7 July 2007 (UTC)