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[Wilson Gray]

> Usage pretty familiar to me from undergraduates forty years ago.

Students routinely wrote "any of _our's_ children" aut sim. forty years
ago?! I've heard and read, "She could be any of _our_ children," et sim.
for all too long.

Youneverknow.

Remember the olden days when people used strange constructions like, "She
could be the child of any one of us"?

On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 11:02 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Usage pretty familiar to me from undergraduates forty years ago.
>
> JL
>
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 11:30 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > "She could have been any of our’s child."
> >
> > [Full disclosure: the writer is my second cousin, once removed.]
> >
> > --
> > -Wilson
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> > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > -Mark Twain
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-- 
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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