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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: Whose? ... Ours, prolly #125199 03/14/2004 9:19 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Capfka Pooh-Bah Capfka Pooh-Bah Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok I don't know the distribution of the use of "our" so-and-so, Kapatchka, but I would guess that it came into use in the first place to distinguish someone who belongs to the family from someone else with the same name who doesn't. "Our Rose is on good form tonight." "Yeah, better than Rose from No. 10!" This be Rhuby territory. Where be Rhuby? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Only in England ... Capfka 03/14/2004 7:33 PM Re: Only in England ... Buffalo Shrdlu 03/14/2004 9:07 PM Re: Only in England ... Kupatchka 03/14/2004 9:08 PM Re: Whose? ... Ours, prolly Capfka 03/14/2004 9:19 PM Re: Whose? ... Ours, prolly Kupatchka 03/14/2004 9:49 PM Re: Whose? ... Ours, prolly Capfka 03/14/2004 11:41 PM Re: Whose? ... Ours, prolly dodyskin 03/15/2004 4:37 PM Re: Whose? ... Ours, prolly Jenet 04/19/2004 6:48 AM Re: Whose? ... Ours, prolly dodyskin 04/19/2004 10:59 AM Re: Whose? ... Ours, prolly Jackie 04/20/2004 2:05 AM Re: Only in England ... Bingley 03/16/2004 7:48 AM Re: Only in England ... Sparteye 04/19/2004 12:03 AM Re: Only in England ... sjmaxq 04/19/2004 3:22 AM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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