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Weird examples of spoken English grammar

Today on TV I heard the following:

That stuff was the guy who lived there before his.

This sounded very natural so it took me a second to figure out what was happening. The stuff belonged to the guy “who lived their before him“, and then to make that phrase possessive, it was easy enough to make the basic him to his transformation.

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713 Responses to “Weird examples of spoken English grammar”

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    September 10th, 2008 at 03:01

    respected sir,
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    September 22nd, 2008 at 04:42

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    October 30th, 2008 at 14:58

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    November 13th, 2008 at 09:12

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    December 22nd, 2008 at 09:28

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    July 2nd, 2011 at 22:06

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