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[Queens' College]

N.B.! It's Queens', not Queen's. There were two of them.

Well:

: The Queen's College of St Margaret and St Bernard, commonly called Queens' College, in the University of Cambridge.

Oxfnord contains a Queen's college. Everyone always goes "Eew! Apostrophe wrong!"...

: Terribly sorry. My mistake - TimeTrout

It has a /LightSide? and a /DarkSide?, but, AFAIK, it doesn't bind the universe together.

Doesn't that mean we should pronounce it Queenses? --Vitenka
Well, no. Where were you when they taught the grammar lessons at school?
They taught grammar at your school? Wow.
Yes, unusually for a school after the 1950s, they decided it was worth teaching. But, anyway, things only get pronounced funny if the singular word ends in an 's', as in " We're going to the Jones' ".
Well, like all grammar rules in English, that makes no sense. How are you supposed to differentiate (in spoken form) queens' from queen's? I guess you could use princesses' for added evilness...
You differentiate as much as you differentiate "flare" from "flair", and so on... i.e. you don't. The punctuation does makes sense in as much as it's just a legacy from old spellings/pronunciations of the words.

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