Talk:this's

Contraction vs noncopular sentence

I always thought it was a non copular sentence, from AAVE --Backinstadiums (talk) 01:16, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

pronunciaiton

could somebody please add what phenonmemon causes it's irregular pronunciation? --Backinstadiums (talk) 11:06, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Why is this here?

I find it hard to imagine any native speaker ever using this awful contraction. Including it in this dictionary will only mislead learners into thinking it might be acceptable. EdH (talk) 15:26, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

pronunciation seems wrong

I don't think I've ever heard the listed pronunciation. I'd pronounce this's something like ðɪs(ə)z.

Use as the possessive of pronominal this

Using this's as the possessive/genitive form of this certainly sounds natural to my ear, and it appears this would be the expected reflex of Old English þisses. Indeed, given that the possessive clitic, -'s, can be applied so freely—including to other demonstrative pronouns (e.g. neither's)—it seems reasonable that one would find such usage (and likely its proscription).

Despite this, I'm struggling to find any examples of its use with this meaning, other than by people discounting the existence of such a word (which, if anything, may be weak evidence of that very existence). Google scholar's search function is too clever it seems to allow a search of the word, helpfully returning instances of this instead. So I post here, in the hope that someone does know something about this usage. D4g0thur (talk) 08:38, 5 June 2022 (UTC)