On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:06:39 -0400, "h"
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On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:17:21 GMT, (Doug Miller)
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In article , mm
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Or maybe homer, which stands for home run. It's plural is homers.

s/It's/Its/

"It's" = "It is".
"Its" = possessive form of "It".
One of the most contoversial applications of the apostrophe in
English usage - by all the normal rules, the posessive SHOULD have the
apostrophe, but like a lot of English, it's the exception .

Because "its" is a pronoun. That is the rule for pronouns, not the
exception.

Except the pronoun "its" is somewhat different - he, him and
his,she,her and hers, I,me and mine, you and yours they and theirs .

"it" remains " it", like John remains "John", so to many it would
appear right to make the possesive of "it" be "it's" like the
possessive of "John" is "John's".

But it doesn't work that way in English.
Part of what makes English one of the harder "major" languages to
master - there are almost as many exceptions to the rules as their are
rules.