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- noun Plural form of
which .
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Examples
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Apart from other faults, there are too many "whiches" here, and unlike his malignant hero, _Davoli_, the Canon doesn't seem to be well up in his "which-craft."
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 10, 1892 Various 1876
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The superstion is that the vampire has to count all the seeds and since it is impossible to in one night the sun will kill him. there is also a similar superstion with whiches. you put a net near your bedd and if a witch comes to hex you she has to pass through every hole. grave of the vampire, existentialism and the occult
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A quick and dirty tip (with apologies to Wiccans and Hermione Granger) is to remember that you can throw out the “whiches” and no harm will be done.
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Did you catch the over-use of subordinate clauses, all of those whiches in yellow?
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Did you catch the over-use of subordinate clauses, all of those whiches in yellow?
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December 27, 2007 at 10:34 am teh fing iz Janet……taht eggcept fur mi speeling….whiches in reel ife izzin TAHT muches bedder !
Ur flavr. It hurtz me. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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Phil Spectorz yesh teh saem guy now awn trail fur murder waz famuz produser of doze days…..he invbented “teh wall ob sound” whiches was teh grate studio musicunz who plai teh music awn doze recurdz…..
east german kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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Saying whiches, see his bow on the hapence, with a pat-tedyr but digit here, he scooped the hens, hounds and horses biddy by bunny, with an arc of his covethand, saved from the drohnings they might oncounter, untill his cubid long, to hide in dry.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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I stumbled on the preferred usage of that and which, probably in Strunk and White's Elements of Style, which says, "Careful writers, watchful for small conveniences, go which-hunting, remove the defining whiches, and by so doing improve their work." 4th Ed. at 59.
"That" v. "Which" 2006
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I stumbled on the preferred usage of that and which, probably in Strunk and White's Elements of Style, which says, "Careful writers, watchful for small conveniences, go which-hunting, remove the defining whiches, and by so doing improve their work." 4th Ed. at 59.
January 2006 2006
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