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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From that + 's (contraction of words ending in s).
Contraction
that's
- That is.
That's the book I've been looking for.
Collingwood are saying that's Stephenson's 10th game.
- That has.
I've managed to find the solution to the problem that's been bugging me all day.
- That was.
- That does.
- das (AAVE)
- dat's (AAVE)
- thass (dialect or representing slurred, drunken speech)
- thats (obsolete)
Etymology 2
From that + -'s (possessive marker).
Pronoun
that's
- (nonstandard, dialect, e.g. Black Country, Northern Ireland) whose, of which, in dialects that require a human antecedent for 'whose'
1992, Jim Crace, Arcadia, page 10:He had in his pocket an old flick-knife that's spring was slow and temperamental.
1993 January 10, Bill Vlasic, “Cool Contest”, in The Detroit News, page 1D:" […] we want them to bring a product to market that's time had not yet come," said Ray Farhung, a Southern California Edison official.
- 1995, Aimo Seppänen & Göran Kjellmer. The dog that's leg was run over: On the genitive of the relative pronoun. English Studies 76, 389–400.
- 2009, Doug Whitman, quoted in Neal Whitman, "We Don't Speak the Same Language" (blog post, 2011 March 23):
- the only one that's title has been released
2014 March 28, Warren Maguire, “ Comments”, in Mark Liberman, Language Log, archived from the original on 2014-04-08:that's is perfectly possible in my Northern Irish English dialect, e.g. "The cow that's calf was lost" is fine; "The cow whose calf was lost" is not so good as my dialect seems to require human reference for who, […]
- 2018, Jimmy Im, "I shopped at Amazon's new 4-star-product store in New York City — here's why I wouldn't do it again", CNBC.com, 2018 September 28:
- It had products like a WiFi light bulb that's brightness and even color can be controlled via Smartphone.
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