Re: [tied] Evening/Night (was Re: The "Mother" Problem)

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>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Exu Yangi" <exuyangi@...> wrote:
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> > Historically, it is a genitive. I would imagine is would fall in
> > with the plural simply because you can't tell -s from -s, which
> > marks both the gen. and plural.
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>But we write the genitive plural in English as -s',
>don't we, and yet we don't write "I work days'"?

And your point is? Go almost any where in the US (other than the actual
places that have educations) and tell them you want them you want to watch
their genitives. You may get shot.

Most people havn't the faintest idea of what a genitive is, let alone how to
spell it if it sounds like a plural. Which, of course, it does