> Aya"While we were house-hunting the other day, I saw a sign outside someone's house that said 'The Stoddard's'. The misplaced apostrophe seemed pretty jarring for someone with Sam's last name. :)"ko

Oh well. You can justify it by thinking maybe they're treating the Stoddard family as a Scottish clan, and that's the home of the clan chief. The correct title for him would then be The Stoddard, so there you go. Problem solved.

Brunnen-"it doesn't work, it still drives me nuts even to think about it"G