Where Should The Apostrophe Be?

[mrs.chappie]

Sorry for wrong category - don't know where this question should go.

I have been asked to make a 'Good luck in your new home' card. Buyer has asked me to print:

Good luck in your new home, the Campbell's. It doesn't look right. Should I take out the apostrophe?

Thanks in advance for any help, peeps. x

[dannyk13]

Leave it out.

[Tilly2]

Ha! Danny.

[elliemay1]

Thought it was alliterative! Is he Tom1 or Tom2??

[dannyk13]

My local council has decided that the apostrophe is too confusing and leave it off such things as street names. e.g St John's Place becomes St Johns Place.lol

[Tilly2]

Maybe that's because they are not sure themselves, Danny.

That would really irritate me.

(It's not really Tom, elliemay. I was joshing!)

[elliemay1]

I knew that, Tilly! Just as your name is really Tootsie.

[gness]

Tilly....fancy becoming an apostrophe placing guerrilla?....☺

[elliemay1]

Waterstones in Belfast dropped the apostrophe a few years ago.

[Tilly2]

Tilly....fancy becoming an apostrophe placing guerrilla?....☺

I do indeed, gness.

[boxtops]

well, so I did, QM - a pure typo, you understand :-)

[gness]

I once corrected all the wrongly placed apostrophes on a sign in the toilets in Leicester Hospital.....I had time on my hands....☺

[boxtops]

My sister has been known to rub them out on chalkboards outside shops....

[elliemay1]

I do that too, boxtops.

[mrs.chappie]

I'd prefer to see first names on a card, but using the surname is a good compromise when the sender isn't sure how to spell the family's first names.

[Tilly2]

They're not called Tilly, Tom and Tootsie the mrs chappie? :-)

[mrs.chappie]

:o)

I see some weird names these days. I'm sure some of them aren't proper names, they're just made up by splicing two pop stars together.

[jno]

Earl's Court has got one, Barons Court hasn't. There are reasons, of course, but really you can't expect things to be obvious or logical in English.