Look, guys, I just wanna find out which room is the mens' room and which
room is the womens' room---or maybe theirs a persons' room---or, no, a
peoples' room. In one more minutes' time, its just gonna be too late!!!!
And, likely, YOUR gonna be too blame!!!
GrammaG
From: "Robin Hamilton"
> From: "Jon Corelis" <[log in to unmask]>
>
>> One is the use of it's as a possessive, as in "This table has one of it's
>> legs too short."
>
> I think this drifts-in because most possessives (though not pronouns like
> "its") are signalled by an apostrophe. It's not simply a gratuitous error
> (few are), but in a horrible way emerges from the pressure of the overall
> orthographic system of English.
>
> Which makes me wonder why this *hasn't* (as far as I know) happened to
> "your's", "our's" and "their's" (or "yours'", "ours'" and "theirs'").
>
> It's poor old "it is" that I really feel sorry for -- rapidly having its
> orthographic identity swallowed up by a mere possessive pronoun.
>
> Robin
>
> (Whose hour's space of time is short)
>
> [Whose? Ours? Space of time is short!]
>
> {Who's ours? Space of time, off course.}
>
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