A change of pace: _its'_ [NT]

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Oct 19 03:02:18 UTC 2011


I think this an instance of the law of conservation of wayward apostrophes, an attempt (feeble as it may be) to balance all those cases of "their's" and "Charle's".

LH


On Oct 18, 2011, at 9:26 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

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