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Possessive Form in Lists
January 30, 2010 9:51 am
(@grantbarrett)
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What's happening linguistically when someone's using the second-person singular possessive in a list of items? A Charlottesville, Virginia, caller began wondering that recently after hearing a wood-flooring salesperson say, βYou got your maple, you got your cherry, you got your oak...β This is part of a complete episode.
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