On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 at 21:30:28, Robert Newson wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>COLIN PARSONS wrote:
>
>...
>>> Its letter perfect awl the weigh
>>> My chequer tolled me sew!
>>>
>>> John Taylor
>> I may be being pedantic, but how about the missing apostrophe in
>>it's, it's miss-spelt with out it!!
>
>But it's also rite to spell "it's" "its".
Exactly.
It's is short for "It is" - in the possessive one uses 'its' normally.
Quite illogical of course.
Tony
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