"I've a 24" 2.4Ghz iMac _that's_ hard drive recently packed in."

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Wed Feb 16 03:57:21 UTC 2011


At 2/15/2011 05:45 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>I mentioned this some years ago. I had a freshman in the early '80s who
>insisted that "that's" was correct because "whose" referred to people.

Whose what I would have said.  And I would have said "whose".

Joel

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