I can help who's next

[Greg Pulliam]

I heard this repeatedly from the teenaged counter staff at Panera's
in eastern Springfield, IL yesterday. "Who's" presumably replaces the
longer "whoever's."
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Gregory J. Pulliam
Lewis Department of Humanities
218 Siegel Hall/3301 South Dearborn
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, IL   60616

312.567.7968 or 312.567.3465

pulliam at iit.edu
http://www.iit.edu/~gpulliam

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