It’s the penultimate Friday of 2023, and with 2024 around the corner, you might be thinking about New Year’s resolutions. If one of them is to improve your writing, learning the finer points of writing the name of the first holiday of the year is a good place to start.
By this point in the holiday season, you might be apostrophe’d out. The punctuation mark makes its way onto many a holiday card when it shouldn’t; you don’t need an apostrophe to make a last name plural. So it’s, “Love, the Smiths,” not, “Love, the Smith’s.”
Save those apostrophes for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. And yes, it’s a singular year (not New Years’). And while those celebrations are capitalized, you should not capitalize “resolutions” or general references to the new year.
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Have a wonderful holiday season!
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