It’s Joneses. Not Jones’ or Jones’s.
By the way, if you ever should be sent as an ambassador to the UK, it is to the Court of St. James’s, although the Brits would not use a period after the abbreviation of Saint since both the first and final letters are included.
It’s singular. She received the kudos that was her due. The word means fame, prestige, renown. There can be, and is, no plural.
To kibitz is to meddle in a game played by others, to interfere with unwanted observations.
It is the Yiddish spelling of the German word “kiebitz” which is the name of a bird called a lapwing in English. The lapwing is a kind of plover, black and white, with an annoyingly loud call. Its name comes from the Old English “hlēapewince,” from “hlēapan,” to leap and a base word that means “to move from side to side” (from which we also get the word “wink”). The name is a description of the erratic way the bird flies. By the time of Middle English the spelling was simplified to “lapwing.”
Think of the kibitzer as the flashy black-and-white bird flapping around and making distracting calls.
By the way, the word “kibbutz” is an unrelated Hebrew name for a communal settlement.
