Re: Spell Checkers

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From: Dai F Toyama
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 10:03

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On 14 Jan 1995, William Jeremiah wrote:

> Phil Longstaff (phill@dnbf01.dev.cdx.mot.com) wrote:
> : Jacob C Kesinger (n9146070@janice.cc.wwu.edu) wrote:
> : : gbaron@sparc.isl.net (Gilbert Baron) writes:
> : : [.....]
> : : good English, Mr. Gates).  Basically, all its used for
> : : now is to check my punctuation (sp).
> :                                             ^^^
> : Don't forget to turn it on. (should be "it's").
>
> 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.
>

I'm afraid you're wrong, William.  Its (without) is the possessive.
(e.g., "I don't like Seattle.  Its weather always sucks.")  OTOH, it's
(with) is the contraction for 'it is'.  (e.g. "It's very windy today.")

Regards,


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From: Dai F Toyama <borap@paul.spu.edu>
Newsgroups: misc.writing,alt.folklore.computers,alt.usage.english,can.english,misc.education.language.english
Subject: Re: Spell Checkers
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 02:03:02 -0800
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