Southern 2nd-person plural double genitive

Donald M. Lance LanceDM at MISSOURI.EDU
Wed Oct 18 20:15:40 UTC 2000


Mark Odegard wrote:

>  guyses'.

It should be guys's, pronounced as two syllables, but with the apostrophe before rather
than after the genitive -s.  You have a double plural followed by an apostrophe.
DMLance



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