Re: OT "Women's Music" or "Womens' Music"?

[Robert Cohen <rlcm17...>]

women's.  Just think it through:  music (or whatever) "belonging to" (in 
some loose sense; here, deriving from) women.  I.e., add the apostrophe s to 
whatever/whoever's doing the possessing.

What's anomalous is that "women" is a plural, and most plurals in English 
end in s and form the possessive by just adding an apostrophe, without 
an(other) s:  the musicians' wages (vs. the musician's, if there's only 
one).

But:  "women's", like "children's"

--Robert Cohen (editor and writer), who will respond to other, weightier 
matters in time



>Off-topic question for grammar nuts:
>
>Is it "Women's Music" or "Womens' Music"?
>
>I would think that since the word "women" is already plural, the apostrophe
>should be between the n and the s.

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