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Apostrophe’s
7 Dec 07
I’m pretty good at apostrophes, actually, and other Englishy stuff. But I can never remember whether the third-person pronoun “one” is made possessive with or without the apostrophe. His, hers, its, all take none, and of course “one’s” is correct and doesn’t follow this pattern.
So, lazily, whenever I have a memory lapse around a grammar or spelling (or in this case, punctuation) thing, I’ve taken to dropping the word in question into a Google search. Google’s number one hit for “one’s”? A wikipedia entry on Eating one’s own dog food.
Posted by pzed on December 7, 2007 at 11.19am
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