"Rob Morley" wrote in message
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In article , "MikeT"
says...
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:59:14 GMT, veritas wrote:

When I went to school, "it's" (possessive) had an apostrophe

so it stays

its = possessive (don't ask me why in this particular exception to the
rule)

It's no different to his, hers, theirs, yours. None have an apostrophe
in
them.

That should be "none has an apostrophe in it", none being a contraction
of "not one" - you wouldn't say "one of them are ..."


Are we going to move on to the frequent (mis)use of an rather than a by much
of the media - typically such as an hotel?