Help please! People's or peoples'?

[Deleted]

Can you help me please?

I am getting confused with plural possessive use of the beloved apostrophe.

I know that the people's princess is correct.

What about plural + plural

for example: the views of people

is it people's views or peoples' views?

[Paul Doherty]

People's views, Alinka. It doesn't matter whether we're talking about their views or their princess, it's still people's. In fact, the possessive is never affected by whether the thing possessed is singular or plural: the dog's bone, the dog's bones. All that matters is whether the thing doing the possessing (the dog in my example) is singular or plural.

The only time you might use peoples' is as the possessive of peoples. If I have a people (as in "set my people free") then I could have several peoples ("the various peoples who share the native American heritage") and its possessive would be peoples'.

In short:

- people's = of the people
- peoples' = of the peoples

[Deleted]

Many thanks, you have made it very clear.
Much appreciated.

[Paul Doherty]

You're welcome, Alinka.