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Subject:Re: Its vs. it's From:Tracy Boyington <tracy_boyington -at- OKVOTECH -dot- ORG> Date:Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:59:48 -0500
geoff-h -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA wrote:
> Because "its" violates one of the first rules all English
> speakers learn about possessives: to form a possessive, add
> apostrophe-s (e.g., "Geoff's message"). So isn't it logical
> that the possessive of "it" would be "it's"? Logical yes,
> correct no. Chalk it up to yet another one of the weird and
> wonderful rules of English.
That's the first thing that popped into my head, but then I thought why
don't these people write "hi's" and "her's"? Well, OK, they do write
"her's."
Tracy
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Oklahoma Department of Vocational and Technical Education
Stillwater, OK, USA http://www.okvotech.org/cimc/home.htm
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