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<p>[QUOTE="justafarmer, post: 8049839, member: 3926"]But you have to give consideration to the grammar that was beaten in.</p><p><a href="http://www.word-detective.com/back-d.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.word-detective.com/back-d.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.word-detective.com/back-d.html</a></p><p>"At the risk of giving aid and comfort to the "ungrammarians" among us, however, I must note that the difference between "it's" and "its" was not always so definite. Until the 19th century, in fact, "it's" was usually considered the possessive of "it" -- in the Fall, a tree shed "it's" leaves. The usual contraction of "it is" was "'tis." Only when "'tis" came to be regarded as an archaic form in the 19th century did the use of "it's" as a contraction of "it is" push out the use of "it's" as a possessive. I know this is a bit hard to follow, but the point is that the "rule" used to be the exact opposite of what it is today. And on that note, I move that we adjourn our seminar until next time, when we'll explore a few more holes in the logic surrounding our little friend "it.""[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="justafarmer, post: 8049839, member: 3926"]But you have to give consideration to the grammar that was beaten in. [URL]http://www.word-detective.com/back-d.html[/URL] "At the risk of giving aid and comfort to the "ungrammarians" among us, however, I must note that the difference between "it's" and "its" was not always so definite. Until the 19th century, in fact, "it's" was usually considered the possessive of "it" -- in the Fall, a tree shed "it's" leaves. The usual contraction of "it is" was "'tis." Only when "'tis" came to be regarded as an archaic form in the 19th century did the use of "it's" as a contraction of "it is" push out the use of "it's" as a possessive. I know this is a bit hard to follow, but the point is that the "rule" used to be the exact opposite of what it is today. And on that note, I move that we adjourn our seminar until next time, when we'll explore a few more holes in the logic surrounding our little friend "it.""[/QUOTE]
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