Re: Re: OT: Spelling errors
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: OT: Spelling errors
- From: F* E*
- Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 12:17:10 -0700
Credit it to our wonderfully inconsistent English language. If, after a lifetime, we still don't always get it right, pity the foreigners.
Francelle Edwards
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From: neilm@charter.net
To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 2:35 AM
Subject: [iris-talk] Re: OT: Spelling errors
--- In iris-talk@y..., pbrooks@w... wrote:
> Speaking of spelling...the common error that irritates me most is
> the confusion of its and it's. Which is pretty easy to remember:
> It's is a shortened form of it is...."
Patricia, you are not alone. I just sigh. Not only "it's"
and "its," but similiar confusion over "one's" and "ones," a parallel
of the above construction--"one is" is "one's," whereas "belonging to
one" is "ones"--and confusion of "you're" and "your," another
parallel. I cannot count how many times I have seen otherwise astute
users of written English make these errors. They all have the same
root. We were taught to use the apostrophe when making a
possessive. The rule, unfortunately, applies to nouns, not pronouns.
Then there's the homonyms of "their" and "they're" and "there."
Oy Weh! I just sigh and try to hear what the author is trying to say
and not let my literary perfectionism get in the way of fellowship
and pleasure. It's ("it is!") difficult, though.
Neil Mogensen z 6b/7a near Asheville, NC
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