On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Rowan Berkeley
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Actually, the possessive pronoun WAS spelled with an apostrophe (which
> is quite logical, since others are) until the contraction for 'it is'
> became unavoidably common. Eighteenth-century printers wrote it with
> one; I know this because I recently read the facsimile edition of Bishop
> George Berkeley's "Alciphron" (1735) on Google Books, and there it was.

Hmmm... not sure if that was necessarily a standard across the English
language...

Sean

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