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The Eagle Has Landed

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Possessive Form in Lists

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, β€œYou got your...

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