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Why is there an apostrophe in "its"?

• deleted 12y ago
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• malkia 12y ago
  Error in decompression I guess.
• kbenson 12y ago
  There's not supposed to be one. It makes no sense to say "How InnoDB lost it is advantage" so it's not supposed to have an apostrophe. It took me decades to internalize that rule, and even now, I accidentally do the wrong thing. http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/its.html http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/its.html
  • whoopdedo 12y ago
    Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe http://www.angryflower.com/aposter.html http://www.angryflower.com/aposter.html
  • ams6110 12y ago
    Queue my tenth grade English teacher: "It's a wise dog that scratches its own fleas."
    • jdub 12y ago
      "Cue". :-)
      • reubenmorais 12y ago
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law