Their vs Thons - What's the difference?
their | thons |
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* 1594 , Shakespeare, William, The Comedy of Errors , act IV, scene 3, line 1172:
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* {{quote-book
, year = 2007
, first = J. K.
, last = Rowling
, authorlink = J. K. Rowling
, title = (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)
, location = (quoted edition: London
, publisher=Bloomsbury, 2008
, isbn = 978 0 7475 9586 1
, page = 93)
, passage = ‘I mean ... if somebody made a mistake,’ Harry went on, ‘and let something slip, I know they didn’t mean to do it. It’s not their fault,’ he repeated, again a little louder than he would usually have spoken.
}}
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(neologism, archaic) Belonging to thon, their (singular).
* {{quote-journal, year = 1889
, month = November
, title = That Desired Impersonal Pronoun
, journal = The Writer
, first = C. Crozat
, last = Converse
, publisher = William H. Hills
, city = Boston
, volume = 3
, issue = 2
, page = 248
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=QQQ-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA248
, passage = Every writer has "thons " verbal likes and dislikes, yet, for the sake of convenience, I trust that even "thon" who dislikes verbal innovations will give my little word a little trial and note for me the result.
}}
* {{quote-journal, year = 1895
, month = July
, title = The New Pronoun
, journal = The Public-School Journal
, publisher = Public-School Publishing Co.
, city = Bloomington
, volume = 14
, issue = 11
, page = 613
, quotee = The Lynchburg Record
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=3fkBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA613
, passage = I hope that each student will have learned thons algebra lesson perfectly this morning.
}}
* {{quote-book, year = 1895
, title = Outlines of Psychology
, first = Henry Graham
, last = Williams
, publisher = C. W. Bardee
, location = Syracuse
, edition = 3rd
, page = 5
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=_BEAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA5
, passage = Every student should acquaint thonself with some method by which thon can positively correlate the facts of thons knowledge.
}}
As a determiner their
is .As an adjective thons is
(neologism|archaic) belonging to thon, their (singular).their
English
Determiner
Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool, passage=For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.}}
The attack of the MOOCs, passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}
- There's not a man I meet but doth salute me
As if I were their well-acquainted friend