i like 'oh mine'

Using a possessive pronoun is gramatically more complete and correct than 'Oh my'.

Compare:

x 'This is your'
with
'This is yours.'

If you want to use 'Oh my' as an abbreviation of 'Oh my god', you should really write 'Oh my ...' (or is that 'Oh my...'?)

Posted By: Dave in France on April 26th 2007 at 11:22:36

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Woodgate to Boro 6m ? (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Apr 26, 11:09:21
- Best English Centre Half Available (Other Football) - Martin Peters, Apr 26, 11:14:34
- A player who always and easily got injured... (Other Football) - XXL16, Apr 26, 11:13:02
  - Phew - I'm glad we never sign any of those (n/m) (Other Football) - BerlinCanary, Apr 26, 11:14:43
  - nice use of your newly learnt phrase :p (n/m) (Other Football) - Tony Martin, Apr 26, 11:14:24
    - Is this the end of Oh Mine ?!! (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Apr 26, 11:15:11
      - i like 'oh mine' (Other Football) - Dave in France, Apr 26, 11:22:36
        
        which, of course, is why XXL mistakenly used it to start with. Yet another (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Apr 26, 11:26:42
        
        You mean all his posts are run through a translator? (n/m) (Other Football) - BerlinCanary, Apr 26, 11:41:29
        
        Yep, converts his jibber into jabber. (n/m) (Other Football) - Dog, Apr 26, 11:43:57
        
        if it is gone i will miss it (n/m) (Other Football) - raretek, Apr 26, 11:25:40
        
        i've sort of got used to it (Other Football) - Dave in France, Apr 26, 11:28:48
        
        a bit of googling suggests a couple of contexts where it's acceptable (Other Football) - Dave in France, Apr 26, 11:38:17
        
        last one sounds a bit (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Apr 26, 12:08:38
        
        or (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Apr 26, 12:09:09
      - lmao (n/m) (Other Football) - Tony Martin, Apr 26, 11:17:55

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