hehe. I'm with Andrew on the linguistic assessment.
KS
2009/12/9 Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> I read in a bookshop newsletter about
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> 'a moving novel thats effect builds slowly and then continues' etc
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> Is this 'thats' a new word?
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> The writer I guess wanted to avoid the word 'whose' and couldn't come up
> with the
> old 'effect of which'.
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> (the words are attributed to Sophie Cunningham, editor of Meanin Quarterly,
> and a
> published novelist)
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