Susan Harkins
ssharkins at gmail.com
Mon Dec 10 16:07:34 CST 2007
Arthur, I think everyone knows the rules. However, sometimes our fingers and brains aren't in synch. It happens to me all the time. I suppose it's up to you whether something like this bothers you, but seems like a waste of good energy to me. ;) Susan H. > Speaking of rants, it irritates the hail out of me when people incorrectly > use "it's" when they intended "its". There is a very simple rule here: > "it's" is a contraction of "it is", as in "it's raining cats and dogs and > there are poodles all over." "Its", on the other hand, is a possessive > pronoun of neutral gender, as in "Despite its intentions, China was unable > to confine its populace to having merely one child per family."