Please, please learn the difference between the possessive case, and a plural noun. If, for example, you wish to send your letter to both Sandy and me, you would write:
The Mulherens
55 Fifty Five Way
Etc.
You would not write: The Mulheren's, unless you consider Sandy to be the head of a Scottish Clan, and you are referring to him as The Mulheren, and sending the letter to his house, or describing the letter as belonging to him. Or if he were the last Mulheren alive, then saying The Mulheren might make sense.
The Mulheren's Letter (the letter belonging to THE Mulheren)
The Mulheren's House (the house belonging to THE Mulheren)
Surely you can see how silly that is?
To recap - If you are sending a letter to a couple or a family that share a last name, then you are sending it to a PLURAL group of that last name, and you should NOT write the last name as singular, possessive. LEAVE THE APOSTROPHE OUT OF THE EQUATION!
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ARghh, I hate to do this but... it's "Sandy and me".
As in, "Dear people who send [...] me cards in the mail". Not, "Dear people who send I cards in the mail."
But as to the OP, I agree completely.
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Hah! Fixed it.
Face me Mulheren! There can be only one!
Noah - I totally wrote "unless he's the Highlander, and the last one..." but figured no one would get it.
I should have known better.
I would have gotten it...
My biggest peeve are the people that can't comprehend their, there, and they're... wanna strangle them.
A woman after my own heart...
You might cut them some slack if they send chocolate, right?
And gosh, Ness! Your own Gramma? Can't Loch that.
Another one: "Me and my friend went to the mall today."
Argh.
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