Re: Spell Checkers

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From: Bonita Kale
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 1995 14:08

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In a previous article, jeremi@crl.com (William Jeremiah) says:
>
>No actually he was right and you aren't.  Its (without) is the contraction
>and it's (with) is the possessive.  He said "...all it is used for" which
>required the contraction (without).  I can't think of any other word that
>is backwards in this way.


Neither is this one.  It's means "it is" and its means "pertaining to it".

Sorry to be nit-picky.  The language would be more sensible without
apostrophes, maybe, but that will be a few years, yet.


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Bonita Kale
bf455@cleveland.freenet.edu

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From: bf455@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bonita Kale)
Newsgroups: misc.writing,alt.folklore.computers,alt.usage.english,can.english,misc.education.language.english
Subject: Re: Spell Checkers
Date: 15 Jan 1995 14:08:32 GMT
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