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The company name is 'Lands' End' which is grammatically wrong. aristo explains above how it came about. It grates every time I see their catalogue. I said it was a can of worms!

aristo - there's always the option of working round the problem by using the definite article and referring to them as 'the St John's basketball team'.

This thread will run and run!

We haven't done the possessive pronoun 'its' yet!

That will get interesting Rambler
It's a certainty

Yes, Bullfrog, that's the obvious thing to do, but it's certainly awkward in conversation. You'd usually say something like "Whose team is better, Georgetown's or St. John's", and you can see the inconsistency. You should actually say St. John's's, I think.

By the way, there actually is a St. John's University with a great basketball team (in the Big East, along with Georgetown) and I often see this irritating apostrophe use in sports columns.

Or "Which team is better, Georgetown or St. James?"

Sorry, St John

I go past this fine building every day and it still looks wrong...
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02051/newcastle_2051468c.jpg
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