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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Built for about $2.1 million and commissioned in 1893, the vessel’s got Victorian-era ice machines. She’s got engines the size of 7-Elevens. If they fail, she’s got sails, too. She’s got a printing press, bathtubs, furnishings fit for a gentleman’s parlor and a prototype of a water cooler called a “scuttlebutt” around which sailors gathered and talked.


What’s with the “she’s got” usage here? Whatever happened to “has”?


33 posted on 12/01/2010 6:00:47 AM PST by Atlas Sneezed ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: Beelzebubba

Ships are traditionally referred to as females.


40 posted on 12/01/2010 12:21:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Re: Gov. Sarah Palin: Even the lion has to defend himself against flies. ~German Proverb)
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To: Beelzebubba

“she’s has” just does not sound right.


44 posted on 12/01/2010 4:12:07 PM PST by Principle Over Politics (When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary...)
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