Listen "Ask LLOG: "I's" ?"
Episode Synopsis
Email from JK: My daughter remarked that on several occasions recently she has heard presumably college-educated people use the word “I’s”, in a sentence like "I just picked up Margaret and I’s cat from the vet." I'm guessing the reason for this jarring (to me) usage is that the sentence could be more logically parsed […]
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