From: utzoo!decvax!minow
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: It's its -- the last word
Article-I.D.: decvax.208
Posted: Sun May  9 19:19:11 1982
Received: Mon May 10 03:54:15 1982


>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