...plural e; as Singular \ ***"; Plur. ] *™a' ( prsnce s, ( pr1nces, so rose, bush, age, breech, &c. which distinctions not observed, brought in first...pronoun his joining with a noun betokening a possessor; as the prince his house, for the prince's house.' 4- 3- 98-9- Why? . . . plagiary. These words cannot...

...Sinff/'Pri'nce' "IPhir fPrinces, S|nS.t Prince's, )Flur' 1 Princes, so rose, bush, age, breech, &c. which distinctions not observed, brought in first...pronoun his joining with a noun betokening a possessor; as the prince his house, for the prince's house. Many words ending in diphthongs or vowels take neither...

...men's," yet how would he solve her's, our's, &c.? the Poet Spenser, 1580. Ben Jonson, too, terms it " the monstrous syntax of the pronoun his joining with a noun betokening a possessor." Book I. ch. xiii. of his fragmentary English Grammar, which appeared in 1640, reprinted by Gifford,...

...neben the fall of Sejanus in der Zueignung des Stücks und der Erklärung in der Grammatik (779) über the monstrous syntax of the pronoun his joining with a noun betokening a possessor, as the prince his house, for the princts house, a prince his daughter (Mirror 28), Alois his line (Ma....

...in the declining take to the genitive singular i, and to the plural e ; as rose, bush, age, breach ; which distinctions not observed brought in first the...indeed, like Jonson, seems to have kept clear of it; but Randolph, Jonson's adopted son, forgot his father's precept concerning it : Clarendon talks of Mr....

...says, ' Nouns ending in x, s, sh, g, and ch, take to the genitive singular i, and to the plural e, which distinctions, not observed, brought in first the monstrous syntax of the pronoun Aw joining with a noun betokening a possessor.' But this ' monstrous syntax' became so general, that...

...forefathers." Sped. 135. Ben Jonson had taken a dilferent view, and thought that the genitival ending is " brought in first the monstrous syntax of the pronoun his joining with a noun." — GV.c.13. The confusion, however, between this syntax and the genitive appears to have originated...

...says, ' Nouns ending in x, s, sh, g, and ch, take to the genitive singular i, and to the plural e, which distinctions, not observed, brought in first...pronoun his joining with a noun betokening a possessor.' But this ' monstrous syntax' became so general, that the republisher of Ben Jonson, in 1662, taking...

...possessive singular, is, in the plural, es" " which distinction," continues he, " not observed, brought in the monstrous syntax of the pronoun his joining with a noun betokening a possessor, as the prince his house."* The practice appears to have been founded on the grammatical theory that...

...neben the fall of Sejanus in der Zueignung des Stücks und der Erklärung in der Grammatik (779) über the monstrous syntax of the pronoun his joining with a noun betokening a possessor, as the prince his house, for the princes house, a prince his daughter (Mirror 2&), Alois his line (Ma....