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I don't think that's true - I've not seen a single style guide that suggests that!

• baddox 12y ago
  I made no claim about what style guides suggest. I merely claimed that deliberately using "it's" for both forms is increasingly common in written English.
  • sqs 12y ago
    My bias is to doubt that, but I could be convinced by data. Do you have any evidence that such usage is deliberate?
    • baddox 12y ago
      No, I do not have any evidence on the portion of uses that are deliberate. But it doesn't have to be deliberate in the sense that the writer is consciously trying to change the trend. Trends change slowly and "naturally," sometimes even due to misunderstandings of the earlier usages. For example, the word "apron" is widely considered correct and standard, but it arose from a misunderstanding of the phrase "a napron" (from Old French "napperon") as "an apron."