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Re:We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business by butterpeanut on Thursday May 09, 2019 @11:23AM (#19869087)
Without that second 'had' it would have been too close to call.
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Re:We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business by mathieuh on Thursday May 09, 2019 @11:29AM (#19869136)
“John, where Jane had had ‘had’, had had ‘had had’; ‘had had’ received the better mark”.

And now ‘had’ has lost all meaning for me. I forgot which verb it was conjugated from for a second there

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Re:We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business by lemoncucumber on Thursday May 09, 2019 @02:16PM (#19870707)
You missed a couple hads at the end: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_while_John_had_had_had_h...
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