>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.
We are outnumbered? We English Purists will never be outnumbered. It is a
far greater truth that the education system is to blame!
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