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by wmeredith 3035 days ago
Friendly heads up: "its" is possessive (like his or hers) whereas "it's" is a contraction of "it" and "is".
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I really want to file this as a bug report in the English language.

   ENG-21238: Contraction for "it is" easily confused with possessive form of "it"
English is my second language and I barely notice most mistakes but this and the death of proper use of "whose" really, really bother me for some reason.