Wednesday, March 30, 2005 1:15 PM
Chris Jones
Let's put an S on it all
I work across the street from a large Mall that features a Ruby Tuesday
restaurant. Today, they brought us some menus and offered free
delivery. Much to my amazement, the menus said "Ruby
Tuesday." You'll notice no letter "s" at the
end. Here's the thing: I've heard a great many people
mention this restaurant and never, EVER have I heard it said without an
"s" on the end. I guess people just figure there's some woman
named Ruby Tuesday out there who started the restaurant and lent her
recipes as such, or whatever. Let's give her credit by putting
the old apostrophe-"s" on her. Or maybe (JUST maybe) people in
the Ozarks are so grammatically stunted as not to have the ability of
uttering a store name without putting the "s" on it for whatever
reason. Are they all trying to let each other know that they're
aware other stores of the same name exist (e.g. Targets, Barnes &
Nobles) or do they just want to give credit where it's due (e.g.
Target's, Barnes' & Noble's)?