Q: "It's" as the possessive?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 8/10/2009 07:50 PM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>On Aug 10, 2009, at 12:35 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>
>>>Interestingly, it's use as a possessive is clearly on the rise
>>>again: I see it everywhere.

I did not write this -- the person who wrote to me did, as should
have been clear from the number of levels of quotation.

Joel


>the structural pressure for the spelling "it's" is enormous.  i doubt
>that this spelling is really recently on the rise -- only that some
>people have recently attended to it.
>
>arnold
>
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