Re: A little humor to break the monotony

[David S. Jackson]

On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, David Fisher wrote:

> > > enough to bite the Dachshund's neck, the Dachshund opened it's
> 
> Am I the only one left in the English-speaking world who knows the difference
> between "its" and "it's"?

"its" is a 3rd person possessive singlular pronoun.  "it's" is a
contraction.  people get thrown by the apostrophe.  however, we're
adopting a normative level of usage here on the list, I would say,
rather than a traditionally conservative one.  i'd say the English
purists are outnumbered, thank god.

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