Herb,

Oddly enough, I found this on a site about grooming Maltese
dogs<http://spoiledmaltese.com/forum/51-maltese-grooming/70607-grooming-ahem-male-pee-pee.html>:
"Then take his two front paws in one hand. Raise your hand carefully until
his underside is "get-at-able" then very carefully perform thatever i[t] is
you intend to do."

Dick

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 7:41 PM, STAHLKE, HERBERT F <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Craig,
>
> The pattern you illustrate below is certainly true of Standard English.
>  However, in colloquial speech and in non-ztandard varieties of English
> "that" is dropped regularly before 0 subjects in relatives.  I hear people
> say things like "Anyone/thing touches you touches me" fairly regularly.
>  This syntactic change is taking place because that's outside the relative
> clause, just as it's outside the content clause.  If it were a pronoun and
> perceived as a pronoun cognitively, then I would also expect to hear
> things like "Thatever gambles loses" along with "Whoever gambles loses."
>  But that's one I don't hear.   The fact that "that" doesn't delete before a
> 0 subject relative clause in Formal Standard English reflects the
> conservatism of that dialect.
>
> Herb
>

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