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Once, everyone used "'tis" instead of "it's", so there was no danger of confusion with the possessive. <http://www.word-detective.com/back-d.html> http://ww
by DerekL 16y ago
Once, everyone used "'tis" instead of "it's", so there was no danger of confusion with the possessive.
<http://www.word-detective.com/back-d.html> http://www.word-detective.com/back-d.html>
- gruseom 16y agoThat seems like a pretty good website; I'd never heard of it. So "it's" vs. "its" is yet another johnny-come-lately arbitrary rule without historical basis. Yay, one less thing to get annoyed by.