Toshiba presents first methanol mp3 players, 35 and 60 hours on a refill

it's -> its

with what impurities?

fat -> head

John

Tedious -> jerk.

John

Mold is not an impurity; it's 100% natural.

John

it's = it is.

its = belonging to it / of it

So Autumn D C was indeed correct

Graham

Yet another lunacy of the English language, revolving round the absurd genetive apostrophe. Presumably even a renaissance grammatickall pedaunt couldn't torture "its" to be a contraction of "it his", so they let it be.

Paul Burke his opinion.

He's..... She's..... It's..... We're..... You're...... They're. All entirely logical and consistent, like the rest of the English langwij.

Feel VERY lucky that you don't have to cope with Welsh contractions.

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Not lunacy of the language, but lunacy of "educators" who decreed in the '60s that grammar and spelling were no longer "relevant".

Having been educated before that advance in educational theory, I was taught that possessive pronouns _never_ have apostrophes. Would you write "hi's"?

John Perry

Hmm. Around my house it's more like:

hers hers cats'

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  Keith

["Followup-To:" header set to sci.electronics.design.] On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:50:57 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote in Msg.

ours y'alls theirs

Good Grief! Don't use gasoline in your Zippo! It burns with a dirty, greasy, sooty, orangish flame and leaves little visible chunks of soot floating in the air like ashes.

Then, when you burn it all off, the cotton is all full of all of the nonvolatile crud that didn't get burned because it wasn't inside a combustion chamber, and you'll never get the stink out.

Cheers! RIch

None of the possessive pronouns uses an apostrophe. His, hers, its, yours, ours, theirs, whose. "Whose is this?" "It's theirs."

Cheers! Rich Grise, self-appointed chief, Apostrophe Police

You can spill the crap on your _skin_ and go blind! I wouldn't want to handle any of it!

Thanks, Rich

That's a helluva pinch! Smirnoff is way too expensive for that kind of abuse - I buy Prestige at the Food 4 Less for $8.99/1.75L

Cheers! Rich

Actually, you are wrong.

Hm? Isn't it:

his hers its

???

Pronouns, unite! Remember our 12 step program: 1. The plural of it's its. 2. It's not a contraction. 3. It's is a contraction. 4. A contraction isn't it. 5. Its contraction's it's. 6. It's isn't its contraction. 7. His and hers aren't together because his's on the floor. 8. If your last contraction was two steps ago, you're in labor. 9. If you're in labor, the fault's his.

1. A-r-r-gh! (It's talk like a pirate day).
2. Data doesn't want to be plural anymore; he told me so.
3. A pr> Pooh Bear wrote:

...

Cheers! Rich