thats
English
Alternative forms
- that's (pronoun)
Noun
thats
- plural of that
- 1998, David L. Hall; Roger T. Ames, Thinking from the Han, page 247:
- As such, they do not have the ontological weight of "Being" and "Not-being," but serve simply as an explanatory vocabulary necessary to describe our world of thises and thats.
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Pronoun
thats
- (nonstandard, dialect, e.g. Black Country, Northern Ireland) whose, of which, in dialects that require a human antecedent for "whose"
- Darfur is a region of western Sudan thats government is […]
- The cow thats calf was lost
- 2007, Paul Mavis, review of the 1983 film "Hundra", DVD Talk, March 25th
- set about to make a spoofy fantasy adventure thats focus would be on a gorgeous, blonde, man-hating super-warrior who was subservient to no one.
- 2015, James Harbeck, The future of English includes an apostrophe-less 'thats', The Week
- Let me tell you about a word thats time has come.
Usage notes
A case can be made for distinguishing possessive thats, without an apostrophe, from the contraction that's with an apostrophe, parallel to its and it's or whose and its homonym who's.[1]
References
- That's, Language Log, March 28, 2014
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