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Thread #99614   Message #1990407
Posted By: GUEST,meself
08-Mar-07 - 08:53 AM
Thread Name: BS: Declining Standards of English
Subject: RE: BS: Declining Standards of English
"I went to the Doctors. (There was only one Doctor)" -

I can't speak authoritatively about the instance you cite, of course - not having known "She" - but my understanding is that if someone says, "I went to the Doctors [sic]", they (he/she/it) mean "doctor's" - in the possessive - short for "the doctor's office".