Hey, quick question.

[conuly]

One Star of David.
Two Stars of David?

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[peebs1701.livejournal.com]

For pluralization? Yes, that looks right. It's kind of like you have one Attorney General and two Attorneys General.

I'm still not sure what to do with Jack-in-the-Box though. Jacks-in-the-Box seems wrong because you have more than one box, Jack-in-the-Boxes seems wrong because there's more than one Jack, but Jacks-in-the-Boxes just looks (and sounds) weird.

[sayga.livejournal.com]

But a "Jack-in-the-Box" the the name of the toy. So you'd have 2 Jack-in-the-boxes just like you'd have 2 cardboard boxes or two Barbies.

Mother in law is the one that always gets me. Linguistically I learned that either mothers-in-law or mother-in-laws are acceptable. I like mother-in-laws, because the in-law part goes with it like Jack in the Box. She isn't MY mother, so I'm not pluralizing mother, if that makes sense. Luckily, I only have one MIL (for more reasons than just grammatical ones!), so unless there is a mother in law convention and I have to say, "Look at all the mother in laws!" then I don't really have to worry about that one too much.

[conuly]

But Jack-in-the-Box is also the name of a chain restaurant, right? So... call them "Jack-in-the-Box toys" and save yourself the angst!

[feebeeglee.livejournal.com]

I'd say jacks in boxes.