In article , Telamon wrote:
In article ,
"David G. Nagel" wrote:

Cecil Moore wrote:

hayseed wrote:

Now, everybody, back to work and mind your p's and Qs



How about dropping rec.radio.shortwave from the news group list.

Thanks in advance.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California


Did I get ripped off?

Cecil Moore wrote:
jawod wrote:

yes at least to me "last year's work" as opposed to some other
"year's work" pretty sure that's possessive


A year is an it. Is it possessive because it's its work?
How did this get started?

Whose on first?

No answer on the antenna trickle charger?

On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 21:50:57 -0700, "Sal M. Onella"
wrote:


"clifto" wrote in message
...
Incidental note: I've never understood how people who use "it's" as a
possessive never even think to use "hi's" (though some use "her's" and
"their's").

Yup, me too. I listen to "A Way With Words," a radio program on KPBS
(available streaming at kpbs.org) whose host is language writer Richard
Lederer ("Anguished English," "Get Thee To A Punnery," etc). Richard said
that "it's" for "its" (possessive) was considered correct until near the end
of the 19th century. I didn't know that.

That's as bad as using entitled. Michigan Tech voted that as one of
the 10 words that should be eliminated in one of their yearly
selections.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com.