[Mgs] Their back!!
The Roxter
rocknatural at gmail.com
Tue Apr 13 11:56:19 MDT 2010
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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