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yecats2885 | 10:57 Tue 21st Oct 2014 | Phrases & Sayings
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Ive seen a sign on ebay that says -

"Christmas at the (family surname)"

my partner and our children have the surname King

how do I word this sign

Kings, Kings' or King's


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just to be on the safe side i'd go away for christmas
17:29 Tue 21st Oct 2014
You are Gladys King.
Your partner is Bert King.
Together you are the Kings.

You can say Christmas at the King house OR Christmas at Gladys King's house OR Christmas at the Kings' house.

///Kings's house is correct///

Really, in what Language?
Kings's house, as Baldric rightly says, can never be correct as Kings is already a plural. Unlike, for example, St James's Park.
Surely it depends on whether you want to imply the group of people, the Kings, or the individual family King, in which case it would be Christmas at the Kings' (home) or Christmas at the King home respectively, it doesn't make sense to use a possessive apostrophe after just the family name.

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