Now that's what I call really academic!!!!
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Subject: Re: a new word?
If I parse right it's a genitive relative pronoun. I think you can get them
in German. (Old English had no relative pronouns but used particles like
'že' or 'žaet' , although without declension.)
2009/12/8 Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> I read in a bookshop newsletter about
>
> 'a moving novel thats effect builds slowly and then continues' etc
>
> Is this 'thats' a new word?
>
> The writer I guess wanted to avoid the word 'whose' and couldn't come up
> with the
> old 'effect of which'.
>
> (the words are attributed to Sophie Cunningham, editor of Meanin
Quarterly,
> and a
> published novelist)
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