I think I was the one to use it first (recently); it is just a colloquial form of "how about", intended solely for humerous effect, and possibly modelled on the how the average speaker of <Br.E> believes that the average speaker of <Am.E> speaks ...
** Phil (native speaker of <Br.E>). -------- bruce.som...@web.de wrote:
I've seen the contraction "How's about ..." here two or three times in recent days. Can someone please tlell me what it means? What does the apostrophe replace? B. Somers
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