WRFH/Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM - Grammar Minute: World Pilots' Day- A Study in Grammar

Episode Date: April 30, 2025

What's the proper way to write "World Pilots' Day?" It turns out, you have options. Learn more on today's episode of Grammar Minute!

Welcome to the Grammar Minute, where we're saving the English language 60 seconds out of time. I'm Lauren Smith, and recently it was World Pilots Day. I saw several different treatments of that word pilots, but the main confusion seemed to be whether there should be an apostrophe to denote possession, and if so, where it should be. Whether there should or shouldn't be an apostrophe is a stylistic preference. Different guides, such as AP and Chicago, have different views on this. Personally, I think the day belongs to the pilots, so there should be.

be an apostrophe. If we're going to include this, where should it fall? Because the day belongs to multiple pilots, not just one, the apostrophe should come after the final S, pilots, apostrophe. Kudos to AOPA, by the way, for getting this spelling correct. They seem to know a thing or two about airplanes and grammar, which in my book is the perfect combination. That's your Grammar Minute. Visit the Grammar Minute.com for more tips and tricks.