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EvaBrick
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« on: August 09, 2010, 06:59:33 AM »
"... they hate each others guts."

Should others be others'? It's the possessive plural of other, so yes? No?

I've been thinking about this one so much that it's warped my brain. bonk
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« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2010, 07:44:43 AM »
they hate each other's guts

That's how I would do it.
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« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2010, 11:10:51 AM »
Quote from: The Mad Celt on August 09, 2010, 07:44:43 AM
they hate each other's guts

That's how I would do it.

Me also, embarrassed2
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« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2010, 11:23:54 AM »
Me three. Both "each" and "other" are singular, I think. So it would be other's.
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« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2010, 11:39:36 AM »
Me four.   naughty
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« Reply #5 on: August 09, 2010, 12:01:37 PM »
Thanks everyone. Smiley Sometimes I over-think things to the point where a gear seizes in my head. I'll go pour some WD-40 in my ear and get back to work.
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