Apostrophe S

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  From Booksmart Studios, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.

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  I'm John McWhorter, and you know,

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  the last episode I called it The Christmas Show, but that really won't do.

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  Let's actually have some sort of Christmas feeling.

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  And of course, the way we're going to do this is with my sweetie's favorite Christmas carol,

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  Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.

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  This is Hugh Martin and Ralph Blaine in the movie Meet Me in St. Louis originally.

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  And so, of course, I have Judy Garland singing it for us.

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  And this really was one of their best songs.

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  It really is one of the best Christmas carols.

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  I used to love playing it on the piano back when I used to do that for pocket change.

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  And Merry Christmas, sweetie.

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  What we're going to talk about today, actually,

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  I can't even pretend to transition it from Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas or a holiday or anything.

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  We're going to talk about... possession.

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  We're going to talk about how languages, especially this one,

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  mark the possessive and why that's more interesting than it may seem.

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  You can get a lot out of it.

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  It's going to be one of those shows.

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  What I mean by the possessive, if we're going to start out,

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