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Perspective: It was originally Bojangle’s. Then it was Bojangles’. And now? Bojangles.

were putting together a new restaurant concept and hadn’t picked a name,” Woodward said. “Jack was driving along the highway and heard that song.”, a 1970 hit for the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and a favorite of, but about a dancing drunk Walker met in a New Orleans jail cell who offered that nickname as a pseudonym.“Bojangles the restaurant has no affiliation with the song,” said Woodward. The founders just liked the sound of the word.

It clarifies: “But use the apostrophe alone for Jesus’ and for ancient and biblical proper names of more than one syllable ending in -es: Demosthenes’ orations, Xerxes’ conquests, Jesus’ birth.”And it includes another example of where The Post would use ‘s: “Gonzales’s nomination.”

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