Re: CHAT: which's

Jake X wrote at 2003-02-27 18:33:07 (-0500)
 > Nik Taylor scrub:
 > > Does your dialect really permit those constructions?  I'd say "My watch
 > > is broken", "Rich is standing over there".  "Is" cannot contract to -'s
 > > after "ch", "j", "s" or "z", essentially the same environment that
 > > requires -es as the plural instead of -s.
 > Don't forget x, that infamous letter of so much contreversy.

If you're going to look at this orthographically rather than
phonemically, you need to include -ce, -ge, etc.