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Old 02-07-2025, 04:58 PM   #355
Jay Random
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Originally Posted by Ba'alzamon View Post
Well. If you want to get technical, the apostrophe doesn't actually indicate a possessive. "'s" possessives are a contraction of "his"

So "Adam's job" is a contraction of "Adam his job"
That's a myth. The possessive S goes back to Old English, and for centuries it was spelled without an apostrophe.
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