A life without the apostrophe = holy mess with husbands.
Those things over there are my husband’s. (Those things over there belong to my husband.)
Those things over there are my husbands’. (Those things over there belong to several husbands of mine.)
Those things over there are my husbands. (I'm married to those men over there.)
Kingsley Amis knew a thing or two about the apostrophe, used in this context to describe different types of possession.
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