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

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Enny thing" is two words. My bad!

JL

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> At 9:02 AM -0500 2/16/11, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >At this level, anything goes.
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> >JL
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> Shouldn't that be "anything go's"?
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> LH
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> >On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> >>  But shouldn't possessive "that + s" be spelled without the apostrophe,
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> >>  analogy with the other possessive pronouns--"its," "hers," "his,"
> "ours,"
> >>  "whose"?
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> >>  --Charlie
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> >>  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.
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> >>  Whose what I would have said.  And I would have said "whose".
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