Alfredo writes:

> Orthography: It's vital to understand its importance, particularly
>               when dealing with:
>
>               It's (contraction of "it is" or "it has").
>
>               Its (possessive adjective -- the possessive form of "it").

This subject of the proper placement of apostrophes has been brought up
before on HP3000-L. On December 3, 1997, Tim Ericson wrote:

> A very big pet peeve of mine (my wife says I'm anal retentive) is what I
> consider frequent misuse of the apostrophe - especially when related to
> plurals.

To which I replied at the time:

> I would think that anybody who is "anal retentive" about grammar would care
> much more about his colon, or perhaps his asterix, than his apostrophe :-).

Wirt Atmar

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