Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihu1n.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!ihu1n!hobs From: hobs@ihu1n.UUCP (John A. Hobson) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Is English decaying rapidly? Message-ID: <290@ihu1n.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 12:56:53 EST Article-I.D.: ihu1n.290 Posted: Mon Nov 4 12:56:53 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 23:14:37 EST References: <1427@cae780.UUCP> <162@opus.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 16 > Don't forget that a large part of the population which allegedly speaks > English (American) is unable to distinguish the possessive pronoun "its" > from the contraction "it's".... For some reason, > one seldom sees the corresponding mistake "her's" and (I hope) never > "hi's", although I've run across "your's" a time or two. > > Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 Dick, you should stay away from Wautoma, Wisconsin. There is a place just outside of town called "Hi's and Her's Beauty Salon". I kid you not. -- John Hobson AT&T Bell Labs Naperville, IL ihnp4!ihu1n!hobs