[plug] Editor wars: the battle of the apostrophe

[The Thought Assassin]

On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Leon Brooks wrote:
> ``The vinegar's lost its bite'' - apostophe in vinegars for contraction from
> ``vinegar has,'' no apostrophe for its because no contraction, nor does ``it''
> own anything.
Actually, "it" owns the bite. Still no apostrophe, though, since it is a
part of speech along the lines of "my" "your" "her" and "their". The
matter is confused by the trailing 's', which makes it look like it 
matches the usual apostrophed case.

-Greg