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Happy New Year
A little food for thought on January 1st punctuation:
ReplyDeleteHere’s what you need to know to kick off the new year with good grammar.
As you know, apostrophes are used to show possession or take the place of omitted letters in contractions. In the case of New Year’s, we’re talking about possession, which means anything that will, in a sense, belong to the holiday (and not just to the year in general) gets an ‘s.
Example 1: New Year’s resolutions
Example 2: New Year’s Day
Example 3: New Year’s Eve
Example 4: New Year’s party
Note that only Day and Eve are capitalized in the above examples, as they’re specific holidays.
But to make it even more confusing, you should also use the ‘s even when New Year’s stands alone as long as you’re talking about the holiday. For example: “Let’s plan to get together on-line for New Year’s.”
Here, the ‘s implies the eve or day. You should, however, probably get a bit more specific with your friends so they don’t Facetime or Zoom you on New Year’s Eve when you’re actually inviting them to chat face to face in a socially distant New Year’s Day. Just saying.
When the clock strikes 12, and since you’re celebrating the specific occasion, the greeting gets uppercase status (if you were to write it), but since there’s nothing specific to the eve or the day following the greeting, you don’t add an ‘s.
Correct: Happy New Year!
Incorrect: Happy New Year’s!
Get it?