Not quite /lit/ but you guys are good at English. Why does

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Anonymous 2016-01-18 15:21:27 Post No. 7598933 [Report]

Not quite /lit/ but you guys are good at English.

Why does "years" in the following have an apostrophe?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Years'_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years'_War

Does the war belong to the thirty years? It certainly isn't a contraction of "year is".

Anonymous 2016-01-18 15:24:49 Post No.7598941
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Anonymous 2016-01-18 15:24:49 Post No.7598941 [Report]

>>7598933
I really don't know but maybe the og construction is "the war of 100 years"

Anonymous 2016-01-18 15:25:04 Post No.7598942
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Anonymous 2016-01-18 15:25:04 Post No.7598942 [Report]

>War of a hundred years -> Hundred years' War
is how it would've happened IMO
but it's a convention more than anything else

Anonymous 2016-01-18 15:27:35 Post No.7598948
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Anonymous 2016-01-18 15:27:35 Post No.7598948 [Report]

>>7598941
>>7598942
Ahh that makes sense if it's a genitive case kind of thing.

Not quite /lit/ but you guys are good at English. Why does

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