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Subject: Re: [Mgs] Their back!!
From: The Roxter <rocknatural@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:56:19 -0500
Paul Hunt wrote:
> Morse was an arrogant miserable misogynist.  'Oxford' spelling can be 
> recognised by its (or is that it's ...) ize spellings although ise has 
> been standard English English for decades.  However the Times only 
> changed in 1990 (to the tine of 'the Times, they are a-changing'?).  
> The American use of ize is, like 'fall' for Autumn, older English 
> fallen into disuse here but not there. 
The it's its usage is the most frequently erroneous one I see. The rule is so 
simple: no apostrophes in possessive pronouns; apostrophes only in the 
contraction.

-Rocky Frisco
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