I V wrote:
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:08:33 -0800, James Stroud wrote:Yes. I think it was the British who decided that the apostrophe rule for "it" would be reversed from normal usage relative to just about every other noun. I'm not sure the purpose--maybe it was to give compulsive proofreaders a raison d'etre.It's because "it" is a pronoun; you don't put an apostrophe in "his," either.
Its called humor. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
