r/apostrophegore • u/Main_Yogurt8540 • 4d ago

Fool's vs Fools' thoughts?

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u/ALPHA_sh 4d ago

Fool's is totally valid. Think of it as "the day of the fool".

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u/Main_Yogurt8540 4d ago

Interesting, this is my same reasoning for using fools'. All the fools can own the day simultaneously. So I would say it's the day of the fools. It does seem as if they both work though.

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u/Holiday-Tie-574 4d ago

Agreed. There is more than one fool. Just look at “Alec” and “Hilaria” Baldwin, for example.

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u/Main_Yogurt8540 4d ago

I would use fools' but apparently a lot of dictionaries have both variants listed. I thought it might be interesting to get this groups thoughts on the matter.

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u/clintj1975 4d ago

I usually see it as fools' and the first page of Google results is mostly spelled that way as well.

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u/PavelDadsyuk13 4d ago

group's*

I would go "fool's" justifying it as the day of the fool. Logically, both make sense, because you could say it's the day of fools (multiple people). A fool can also be a prank though, in which case it'd be fools.

I don't think it really matters in this case, unless you can't explain your reasoning one way or another (or a third way) - then I cast judgement.

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u/prickelpit96 4d ago

TBH it's not the world, it's the US.... We have some shit over here, but the real pile of shit is on your side of the atlantic.

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u/CMDR_Arnold_Rimmer 4d ago

The Oxford English dictionary defines it as "April Fool's Day"

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u/Pompitis 4d ago

Truth.

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u/p1gnone 4d ago

Been shopping for a new car, wanting to dump our Tesla.. my wife was so happy when Warren Buffett bought the company and we could keep our model Y...Oops, back to shopping.

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u/NotDaveBut 4d ago

Either one works. It just depends on how many phules one has in mind

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u/CraigTennant1962 4d ago

Who cares if both are correct?

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u/Dry-Discipline-2525 4d ago

First year in a while I didn’t do anything at all for it. That tracks.