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In Reply to: I use Firefox and it's spell check, which works amazingly posted by powermatic on April 5, 2007 at 08:39:02:
The subject line of your post should have contained its, not it's, and the second sentence of the last paragraph should have contained others', not other's. I gather most spell checking programs don't catch such errors since the words used are correct in some cases.
Follow Ups:
OWED TWO A SPELL CHEQUEREye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
So to show the possessive for a contraction, would I put the apostrophe after the fact (its'). I'll take your word either way (I'm here to learn!) and I agree with the others'/other's , but hey, what happened to my point about post correction karma? (-:
"It" is something of a special case. With "it" use an apostrophe only when you mean "it is," as in "it's my favorite color." Otherwise, do not use an apostrophe!
I have to be honest, I don't remember using an apostrophe after the s at all, probably did in hight school, or was supposed to.
stuff-sometimes too much.
Yes, I am certain. I suppose I've been obsessed with correct spelling for as long as I can remember. Errors stand out for this reason.
Best regards,
use of the apostrophe for the plural case. :)
rw
Guess what my pet peeves are....(-:
your reply is another example of incorrect context. I think you meant to say that I'm a loser . As opposed to something like "my pants are looser now that I've lost weight".
-cheek, ironic meaning to my post...i.e, both the your (adjective) vs. you're (contraction of you are) and the use of looser when loser is the proper spelling seem to be two of the most common word usage errors on the internet, and, as I hoped to imply, kind of drive me nuts.I thought the smiley face would highlight my intentions. I certainly in no way think "your a looser".(-:
rw
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