On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berke...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Actually, the possessive pronoun WAS spelled with an apostrophe (which > is quite logical, since others are) until the contraction for 'it is' > became unavoidably common. Eighteenth-century printers wrote it with > one; I know this because I recently read the facsimile edition of Bishop > George Berkeley's "Alciphron" (1735) on Google Books, and there it was.
Hmmm... not sure if that was necessarily a standard across the English language... Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
