It's fairly common to see writers confuse its and it's, but its' is never correct, ever!
Thanks to John for sending in this unusual catastrophe!
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Its' [sic] Sick
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9 comments:
Its' truly horrific. But at least theyre' consistent, as this is the sign out front.
[Sic] indeed.
Maybe someone can encourage them to buy some red paint!
You know what's even less correct? "I'ts." I saw that on the break room fridge yesterday.
Wonder what would have happened had they tried the hyphenated spelling of "barbecue." I imagine something like "bar-b'que-"
At least they spelled barbecue correctly.
My friend Carrie sent me this same catastrophe from a recent ski trip. Great minds...
Is should be Barbecue At Its' Bes't :-)
It's was the first correct form of its, then it became its' and they dropped the apostrophe because they consider it a possessive pronoun
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