We can say:    the smell of it   Can we say:    the arrival of him the son of me   And we can't say:   a suggestion of Mr. Smith (should be Mr.Smith's, right?)   Can we say:   a suggestion of Mr. Smith appointed at that time. (the modifier is long)
As  shows, we nearly always use the possessive form of personal pronouns for friend of mine/his/ours/etc.  But when it comes to actual names, we prefer  without the possessive apostrophe. That preference is even more marked with, say, . Not that I think the usage itself is particularly American - it's much the same with .  Personally, I find friend of him grates. In general I've no strong feelings either way as to whether it's friend of Peter or friend of Peter's (though I deplore the possessive in ), but in line with many others, I really don't like the possessive in relation to things like countries.  Why is this?   Edit: Noting an apparent "progression" (pronoun -> person -> nation) marked by reduction in use of the possessive, I checked at a finer "granularity". NGram shows that although it does occur,  virtually "flatlines" against friend of mine. But the bias reduces through of you, of us, and by the time I get to  it's much less extreme. There seems to be something "egocentric" about the double possessive.  Presumably when babies learn to speak, they soon notice that possessive pronouns, possessive apostrophes, and the word "of", all do the same job. Parents would correct a child who says "of mine's", but probably wouldn't even notice the same "redundancy" in "of Peter's". Younger speakers are unlikely to even be talking about something "of America's". Perhaps as we mature we tend to discard the "double possessive" for the more "distant" things that only adults are likely talk about, but we keep it for "closer" people because that's how we spoke when we were younger.  EDIT2 I note that I'm a great fan of him is vanishingly rare compared to ...fan of his, but with ...fan (of John) the double possessive occurs far less often than ...friend (of John's). Usage seems to be affected by the noun before "of" as well as the one after it. This is getting complicated...
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The -k option (or --convert-link) will convert links in your web pages to relative after the download finishes, such as the man page says:     After the download is complete,   convert the links in the document to   make them suitable for local viewing.   This affects not only the visible   hyperlinks, but any part of the   document that links to external   content, such as embedded images,   links to style sheets, hyperlinks to   non-HTML content, etc.   So, if I didn't specify -k, can I run wget again after the download and fix that, and if so, what would be the proper command? My guess is wget -c [previous options used] [url] and run it in the same working directory as the file were downloaded to. Does this email mean that I have been granted the visa? how to place JS-code to NewForm.aspx of a list in SharePoint 2013 APP.  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If $a^2+b^2+c^2=1$ then prove the following. How to change programmatically exposed filters in views I have a page view with exposed filters. One of the filters is term vocabulary, and that's dropdown list, user can select only one category (term).   I want to set programmatically one term from dropdown list when I came from specific URL. I tried with views_query_alter where $category is tid.    $set_exposed_input  = array();  $set_exposed_input['field_category_tid'] = $category;   if ($set_exposed_input) {     $view-&gt;set_exposed_input($set_exposed_input);  } Mapping key combination with xmodmap I'm trying to achieve the following mapping keycode 135 = &lt;Ctrl-C&gt;  Is it possible to achieve this in some way? In the textbook, it said a wave in the form $y(x, t) = A\cos(\omega t + \beta x + \varphi)$ propagates along negative $x$ direction and $y(x, t) = A\cos(\omega t - \beta x + \varphi)$ propagates along positive $x$ direction. This statement looks really confusing because when it says the wave is propagating along $\pm$ x direction, to my understanding, we can drop the time term and ignore the initial phase $\varphi$ while analyzing the direction, i.e. $y(x, 0) = A\cos(\pm\beta x)$, however, because of the symmetry of the cosine function, $\cos(\beta x)\equiv \cos(-\beta x)$, so how can we determine the direction of propagation from that?  I know my reasoning must be incorrect but I don't know how to determine the direction. So if we don't go over the math, how to figure out the direction of propagation from the physical point of view? Why $-\beta x$ corresponding to the propagation on positive x direction but not the opposite? Regarding field-level security, does Lightning Process Builder run as system-level permissions or user?  That is:   Can I trigger an update to a field that the current user cannot edit? Can I filter based on a field the current user cannot read? How to Mount Guest DOS OS with HOST OS.? I am newbie to VM concept. actually i have installed DOS6.22 under virtualbox and using 32bit windows 7 OS as HOST Operating System, now i want to copy some folders/files from HOST OS to DOS6.22 Guest OS. how can i copy.? I am typing a command, I remember I have to check something, if I press Ctrl+U the command disappears and I can type something else, but then the command I was typing is not in the history.  Is there a way to recover that command, or a different shortcut that I can press to save somewhere the command? Why do some statistics symbols have a "squared", e.g. Variance $\sigma^2$, "R squared" $R^2$ or heritability $H^2$ Why does a 'sudo -i' login shell break a here-doc command string argument? In the sequence of five commands below, all depend on single-quotes to hand off possible variable substitution to the called bash shell rather than the calling shell. The calling user is xx, but the called shell will be run as user yy. The first command substitutes $HOME with the calling shell's value because the called shell is not a login shell. The second command substitutes the value of $HOME loaded by a login shell, so it is the value belonging to user yy. The third command does not rely on a $HOME value and creates a file in the guessed home directory of user yy.  Why does the fourth command fail? The intention is that it writes the same file, but relying on the $HOME variable belonging to user yy to ensure it actually does end up in her home directory. I don't understand why a login shell breaks the behaviour of a here-doc command passed in as a static single-quoted string. The failure of the fifth command verifies that this problem is not about variable substitution.  xx@host ~ $ sudo -u yy bash -c 'echo HOME=$HOME' HOME=/home/xx xx@host ~ $ sudo -iu yy bash -c 'echo HOME=$HOME' HOME=/home/yy xx@host ~ $ sudo -u yy bash -c 'cat &gt; /home/yy/test.sh &lt;&lt; "EOF" &gt; script-content &gt; EOF &gt; ' xx@host ~ $ sudo -iu yy bash -c 'cat &gt; $HOME/test.sh &lt;&lt; "EOF" &gt; script-content &gt; EOF &gt; ' bash: warning: here-document at line 0 delimited by end-of-file (wanted `EOFscript-contentEOF') xx@host ~ $ sudo -iu yy bash -c 'cat &gt; /home/yy/test.sh &lt;&lt; "EOF" &gt; script-content &gt; EOF &gt; ' bash: warning: here-document at line 0 delimited by end-of-file (wanted `EOFscript-contentEOF')   These commands were issued on a Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon 64-bit system, which is based on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus).  Update: The here-doc aspect is just clouding the issue. Here's a simplification of the problem:  $ sudo bash -c 'echo 1 &gt; echo 2' 1 2 $ sudo -i bash -c 'echo 1 &gt; echo 2' 1echo 2   Why does the first of those two commands preserve the linebreak and the second does not? sudo is common to both commands, yet seems to be escaping/filtering/interpolating differently depending on nothing but the "-i" option. Why is the first band on a resistor never black? I'm taking an electronic circuit analysis class, and I was asked to give the color of the 3rd band of a 1MΩ resistor. My answer was blue, thinking it could be black-brown-blue (01 * 1MΩ), but the automated quiz said the correct answer was green (brown-black-green).  So I did some research, thinking there were just multiple correct answers, and I read in a few places that the first band on a resistor is never black (0). Why is this? Does a black first band have some other meaning? It would really help me remember it if I knew the history or reasoning behind it.  This question has been answered. For further reading on zero-ohm resistors mentioned in the answers and comments here, I found these questions and answers helpful: This song by The Rolling Stones, "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction". As a non-native speaker, I always wondered what's the exact meaning of this phrase?   Is it "I'm not getting any satisfaction" (this seems to be the most widely met translation; double negation used where single negation should have been used). Or is it "I want my satisfaction, I cannot leave without getting some" (makes much more sense to me).   Or is it something else? I've always had troubles understanding double negation as applied to English. First I was taught it's a mistake to use double negation at all, and then I see it everywhere. vinegar pickles safety