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Re: CHAT: which's

From:Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 25, 2003, 20:22
John Cowan wrote:
> 3) Occasionally native speakers use it as a replacement for the > standard possessive relative pronoun "whose"
They do? I don't think I've ever heard "which's" used for "whose" from a native speaker. It just sounds hideous to me. Indeed, I had to reread your example, replacing "which's" with "whose" to even understand what it was supposed to mean. -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42

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John Cowan <jcowan@...>