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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: WAS: 21-35R First Slides NOW: FOCUSING WIDES!
From: Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:06:25 +1000
References: <20020407232905.29174.qmail@balhpl01.ncable.net.au> <20020408001804.6866@smtp10.on.aibn.com>

>On 4/8/02 firkin@balhpl01.ncable.net.au wrote:
>
>>>  Uh, Ted, may I politely remind you that it's is a shortening of "it is" and
>>>  you should have typed "its"? Thus, you've typed "just twist the ring to it
>>>  is closest focus point".
>
>>I suspect you are wrong as well -- should it be its'? In any case, with all
>>the e-mail shortenings why pick on a silly compromise rule for a language
>>which doesn't have enough words  ;-)
>
>no, he's right
>
>"its'" would be the possesive plural of "it", which makes no sense at all
>
>from:   <http://www.bartleby.com/64/C003/0185.html>
>
>The American HeritageŽ Book of English Usage.
>A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English.  1996.
>
>"3. Word Choice: New Uses, Common Confusion, and Constraints
>§ 185. its / it's
>Its is the possessive form of the pronoun it and is never written with an
>apostrophe: The cat licked its paws. The contraction it's (for it is or
>it has) always has an apostrophe: It's the funniest show I've seen in years."
>
>--
>John Brownlow

Yes, I've also looked it up, and humbly stand corrected ;-), but it's 
OK now, I'm over it.
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