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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
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The very last tenant WHAT lived in one of them?

I'm reading the original version of Sherlock Holmes and I just come across this.

Now, I knew that them two houses in Lauriston Gardens was empty
on account of him that owns them who won't have the drains seed to,
though the very last tenant what lived in one of them died o' typhoid fever.


The what in bold and italics seems to function something like a relative pronoun,

but I'm not quite sure about it.

What is it exactly?

  

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What is it exactly? It is the character's dialect for 'who'. Yes, a relative pronoun.

— Mister Micawber

  • What is it exactly?
  • It is the character's dialect for 'who'.
  • Yes, a relative pronoun.
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anonymousThe what in bold and italics seems to function something like a relative pronoun,but I'm not quite sure about it.What is it exactly?

It is the character's dialect for 'who'. Yes, a relative pronoun.

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