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From: Pascal MacProgrammer
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 1995 21:10

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Not so very long ago, jeremi@crl.com (William Jeremiah) said...

>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.

  It isn't backwards; you have the forms confused.

  The contractions have the apostrophe:  I'm, you're, he's, she's, it's,
we're, they're, who's.
  The possessives have none:  my, your, his, her, its, our, their, whose
(except for the indefinite pronoun, which isn't =quite= a personal
pronoun: one's).

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                              ==----=                    Steve MacGregor
                             ([.] [.])                     Phoenix, AZ
--------------------------oOOo--(_)--oOOo---------------------------------
            "A tautology is a tautology" is a tautology.

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