On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Dave Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> <grammar-fascist> >> The apostrophe is not correct anyway. It denotes a missed letter, in >> this word-position it would be 'doctor is', as opposed to the >> non-apostrophe version meaning 'belong to the the doctor' or plural doctors. > > I think you're thinking of "its" as in the news group > alt.its.possessive.has.no.apostrophe -- it's an exception, not the > rule.
But hey, there's nothing more funny than someone getting their grammar-fascism wrong. :-) Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
