An Apostrophe, Good Sir

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Ken g6

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Q: What is an institution's Information and Technology Services department?
A: It's its ITS. :sneaky:
 

BurnItDwn

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You is dumb, and I are dumber for having this here thread.

Doist thou declare dumb like it's' lacking muchyness of vocal volume, else be-ist thyne making a statement about i'ts mr unsmartypants? I feel the judgement of Mr Unsmartypants lacking in its' proper analysis. Thank you. its been a pleasure sir or madam. Please do the needful!
 

allisolm

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Why is it that American's think that the possessive of "it" is "its" and not the obviously correct "it's"

Why is it that a Canadian thinks that the plural of American is American's?
 

MongGrel

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The OP seemed incorrect to me to begin with.

Not bothering in a grammar fight.
 

Perknose

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LOL did you change that? I know I didn't type that in the OP. That's very funny.

It wasn't changed or edited. Having been caught out by allisolm, you weren't even bright enough to pretend you did it on purpose.

You are a special kind of stupid.
 

who?

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Its' is possesive. That's stupid is the contracted form of that is stupid.
 

CZroe

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Just remember that apostrophes never pluralize. '70s, not 70's, no matter how often you see that in official places. It is almost always needed to substitute for omitted characters in a contraction and sometimes in other places (19 from 1970s in my example above). Though it is also used with the letter s to denote ownership, it is left out of the word "its" to distinguish it from the contraction. This is English, not "American."
 
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sdifox

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Op, just so you know, "The Little Brown Book" is not for ass-wiping.