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Phrase "Where's my cards?" #1 (permalink) Wed Feb 13, 2008 20:00 pm   Phrase "Where's my cards?"
 

I am sitting in my chair, watching this "Michael Clayton" movie and all of a sudden a kid shouts at his mother "Mum, where's my cards?!" Why "is" and not "are"? Is the kid referring to the entire deck which the cards sum up into? Or it's just an improper usage of the language by the kid? Clarify please! Thank you!
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Phrase "Where's my cards?" #2 (permalink) Thu Feb 14, 2008 0:36 am   Phrase "Where's my cards?"
 

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It is common and acceptable in spoken English. First, we are often thinking of the set; second, where's is easier to pronunce than where're.
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Phrase "Where's my cards?" #3 (permalink) Thu Feb 14, 2008 5:02 am   Phrase "Where's my cards?"
 

Mister Micawber wrote:
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It is common and acceptable in spoken English. First, we are often thinking of the set; second, where's is easier to pronunce than where're.
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Hi, MM

In fact I fairly often come across the reduction of does to 's in questions (esp. by youngsters). From books I know it is not grammatical to do such thing.
E.g. what's this mean?
Do you frequently do this in colloquial speech?
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Phrase "Where's my cards?" #4 (permalink) Thu Feb 14, 2008 5:05 am   Phrase "Where's my cards?"
 

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It is fine; it is a common contraction.
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