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