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As my dear old grammar says, don’t be an it’s twit: Kerry Parnell ponders the lost art of spelling

Jul 27, 2014
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IT’S not hard. It’s 'it’s and its, your and you’re'. Got it? The ones with apostrophes are short for 'it is' and 'you are' and the other two are possessive.

Confused? They’re, their, there, you’ll be OK.

Kind of like me. I’m possessive, over the lost art of spelling. No one seems to care anymore, and it’s spelling out a kind of apostrophegeddon.

Read the full article As my dear old grammar says, don’t be an it’s twit: Kerry Parnell ponders the lost art of spelling | Kerry Parnell | Daily Telegraph

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