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Old 27-Jan-2004, 21:23
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Default Re: 'at your place our ours'

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Originally Posted by sunjuvo
It should be 'at your place or ours'

Verify it, please.
When I did a Google search for your suggestion, the number of hit was 1,170.
As for 'our', only 4.
The expression at your place or ours is a very common one. It is shorthand for at your place or at our place. As you discovered, it is almost invariably used with ours and not our.

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