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See also: Appendix:Variations of "sos"
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Contraction
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so's
- So that, in order that.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
- To the extent that.
- "Has he been working?" / "Not so's you'd notice."