Timeline for What does "day's" mean?
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| Jan 10, 2014 at 9:12 | comment | added | ctrl-alt-delor |
As the article says it may not be historically accurate, it is just a way to help you remember. There is a sort of exception and that is that the rule is genderless: it always takes the masculine/neutral form. So no 'r. Or you could say that we truncate Mary hers car, though we are stretching the grammar.
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| Jan 10, 2014 at 9:10 | comment | added | ctrl-alt-delor | Thanks @Nick for pointing out that I am not the first no notice this rule, and that others may have thought it saw where it all came from. As for me I don't care it just helps be know when to use an apostrophe. It's not like I did any research except testing the logic, to see that the rule works. | |
| Jan 9, 2014 at 18:15 | comment | added | Henry | @Bleeding Fingers: "Mary his car" or "Mary her car"? | |
| Jan 9, 2014 at 17:44 | comment | added | Bleeding Fingers | Why not "Mary's = ..."? | |
| Jan 9, 2014 at 14:20 | comment | added | Mr Lister | And then it would be "Mary'r car". | |
| Jan 9, 2014 at 11:21 | comment | added | Chris | "The house is a full day its journey from here." That just doesn't make sense to me though. What on earth is "its" doing in there? | |
| Jan 9, 2014 at 10:20 | comment | added | Tom Robinson | This is not in fact true, though a belief that it was brought about a short-lived blossoming of phrases like 'Nick his dog' in the 1500s and onwards | |
| Jan 9, 2014 at 9:05 | comment | added | ctrl-alt-delor |
As no one yet has answered “what is it short for”, I will. The long form The house is a full day its journey from here. We then contract day its to day's. This may be controversial, as to the why, but the single apostrophe rule does help with the what (where/when to use apostrophes). richarddelorenzi.wordpress.com/2014/01/09/…
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| Jan 9, 2014 at 0:55 | answer | added | please delete me | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 8, 2014 at 19:22 | answer | added | user2243 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 8, 2014 at 18:25 | answer | added | Bleeding Fingers | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 8, 2014 at 17:29 | history | edited | TRiG | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Tidied grammar and formatting.
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| Jan 8, 2014 at 16:09 | vote | accept | Jim | ||
| Jan 8, 2014 at 16:05 | answer | added | Simha | timeline score: 41 | |
| Jan 8, 2014 at 14:25 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/420924179790438400 | ||
| Jan 8, 2014 at 14:16 | comment | added | Matt E. Эллен | There is a blog post about this! | |
| Jan 8, 2014 at 13:33 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jan 8, 2014 at 13:31 | answer | added | mplungjan | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jan 8, 2014 at 13:23 | answer | added | IQAndreas | timeline score: 45 | |
| Jan 8, 2014 at 13:18 | history | asked | Jim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |