Re: Re: OT: Spelling errors

Dennis Kramb wrote:
> 
> >--- 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...."
> >

[Attribution to Neil put back in]

> >Patricia, you are not alone.  I just sigh.  Not only "it's"
> >and "its," but similiar confusion over "one's" and "ones," a parallel
> >Then there's the homonyms of "their" and "they're" and "there."
> 
> Your joking, write?

Dennis,

I hang my head in shame.

Not only did you catch a grammo (grammatical equivalent of a typo) that
I missed, but you also commented on it more cleverly than I would have.

(In case some still don't get it, "homonyms" is plural, but "there's" is
singular.)


Gerry
-- 
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Gerry Snyder, AIS Director and Symposium Chair, Region 15 RVP
Member San Fernando Valley, Southern California Iris Societies
in warm, winterless Los Angeles--USDA 9b-ish, Sunset 18-19
my work: helping generate data for: http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov/

 

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