From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Oct 14 16:33:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 886B837B401 for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 16:33:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a148.otenet.gr [212.205.215.148]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f9ENXcv17770 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 02:33:39 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9EKIVS59495 for doc@freebsd.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 23:18:31 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 23:18:30 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: "it is" versus "it's" versus "its" Message-ID: <20011014231830.A59462@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: C1EB 0653 DB8B A557 3829 00F9 D60F 941A 3186 03B6 X-URL: http://labs.gr/~charon/ Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In en_US.ISO8859-7/articles/diskless-x/article.sgml, I can read: 4 $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/diskless-x/article.sgml,v 1.5 2001/07/06 13:02:54 dd Exp $ ... 229 230 ip=199.246.76.2 231 tells the client what it's IP address is. 232 I think I do not like that ``it's IP address'' part, but what do you native speakers of English think is the correct way of writing this? + its IP address? + its' IP address? Or is it correct as it is, and it's only me being anal retentive? I think I have read somewhere that the first form is correct for indicating `possession', but I can not remember where and when! -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message