Adecvax.208 net.misc utzoo!decvax!minow Sun May 9 19:19:11 1982 It's its -- the last word >From Jessica Mitford, "Poison Penmanship, The Gentle Art of Muckraking" New York, Knopf, 1979. page 210: "Most have trouble with "it's" and "its," so I proposed a mnemonic device: "When is it its? When it's not it is. When is it it's? When it is it is." Hope this clarifies the matter for everybody. Martin Minow decvax!minow ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.