more excrescent "'s"

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Thu Oct 12 14:42:12 UTC 2006


1.  "how come's" corresponding to "how's come" 'how come'

just out of interest, how come's india has such a tiny military, most
of the cities are devoid of troops forcing one to draft partisans ...
forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=102537&page=6

If the big bang theory is true than how come's some of our planets
our spinning in the opposite direction. That's just one more fact to
make evolution wrong ...
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magicchex: how come's it gotta be spelled with ak. That is the old
spelling, dating back to the 1600's, and should probably be
considered the correct one ...
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2.  "what about's" corresponding to "what's about" 'what about'

wumpus, what about's if you want to chain more than one post filter
together? it'd be nice if you could specify a postfilter or include
other post filters ...
www.ogre3d.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=12184&
postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=175&sid=ff50f1...

What about's you!? E ;). Genevieve.. 9/24/2006 11:27 PM i feel that
its not a laughing matter that ur not coming to parklife..its
devastating!! ...
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fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=68620989

"What about's Smith's gun? You still have it?"
www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=3182


3.  "what's if" 'what if'

What's if you don't want to waste your time with all that nonsense?
Is there a shortcut that can provide you with risk-free money?
www.isquare.com/eva.cfm

But what's if you add an option to create permanent blocking cockies?
Then one could choose whether to get a full clean-up after logging
out or whether the ...
forum.statcounter.com/vb/archive/index.php/t-17954.html

I mean, what's if the mailing lists suddenly catch fire? All the
readers might suffer 3rd degree burns!
mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/jakarta-velocity-user/200509.mbox/%
3Cdhfaod$gog$1 at sea.gmane.org%3E


4.  "how's to" 'how to'

ApplayIt's coldfusion resources give you hint and tips how's to build
a top ranking web site.
www.cfm-resources.com/

On this 25th issue of BOTR, the remastering work is also superb, and
give us all a clue how's to be in the studio with Macca.
www.amazon.co.uk/ Band-Run-Paul-McCartney-Wings/dp/B00000I7KL

How's to say that 15% premium compared with similar property ? Where
did that figure come from ?
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