Re: French expressions in English

Irina Rempt wrote:

> I didn't realize where the possessive 's' came from until I learned
> to play something called "The King of Denmark his Galliard".
Actually not.  The English possessive "s" is the same Germanic "s" that the
related languages have.  This use of "his" for /@s/ was simply a
conventional spelling at the time.

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