I can help who's next

[Steve Kl.]

I hear this all the time, and have heard this for quite some time,
especially in coffee shops.

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Greg Pulliam <pulliam at iit.edu> wrote:

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> 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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