that's
detEtymology From that + -'s (possessive marker).
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Canada, Northern Ireland, US, West Midlands whose, of which (in dialects that require a human antecedent for 'whose')
- He had in his pocket an old flick-knife that's spring was slow and temperamental.1992, Jim Crace, Arcadia, page 10:
- "[…] we want them to bring a product to market that's time had not yet come," said Ray Farhung, a Southern California Edison official.1993 January 10, Bill Vlasic, “Cool Contest”, in The Detroit News, page 1D:
4 more examples
- 1995, Aimo Seppänen & Göran Kjellmer. The dog that's leg was run over: On the genitive of the relative pronoun. English Studies 76, 389–400.
- […] the only one that's title has been released […]2009, Doug Whitman, quoted in Neal Whitman, "We Don't Speak the Same Language" (blog post, 2011 March 23)
- that's is perfectly possible in my Northern Irish English dialect, e.g. "The cow that's calf was lost" is fine; "The cow whose calf was lost" is not so good as my dialect seems to require human reference for who, […]2014 March 28, Warren Maguire, “['That's'] Comments”, in Mark Liberman, Language Log, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2014:
- It had products like a WiFi light bulb that's brightness and even color can be controlled via Smartphone.2018, Jimmy Im, "I shopped at Amazon's new 4-star-product store in New York City — here's why I wouldn't do it again", CNBC.com, 2018 September 28