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Subject:Re: Years(') of experience From:Guy Haas <ghaas -at- NETSCAPE -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 28 Feb 1997 13:09:57 -0800
At 12:56 PM 2/28/97 -0800, John Ahlstrom wrote:
...
>How in the name of all the angels (idiomatic emphatic)
>can a year possess anything? Be composed of months, days
>and so forth but be the owner of?
>
>John Ahlstrom
>jahlstrom -at- cisco -dot- com
Chicago Manual of Style, 23rd ed, 6.21, p. 199
Analogous to possessives, and formed like them, are expressions
based on the old genitive case:
an hour's delay in three days' time
Charles's having been there
--g
Guy K. Haas, Software Exegete ghaas -at- netscape -dot- com
Netscape Communications 415-937-3773
501 Middlefield My opinions are mine,
Mountain View, CA 94043 Netscape's are their own.
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