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[Jonathan Lighter]

Well, maybe they left out the apostrophe. Like "whose,"the usage of which
seemed to baffle many, it was an infrequent construction

But otherwise....

JL

On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 2:31 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> > 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
> > > -----
> > > 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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> --
> -Wilson
> -----
> 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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