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Default How about we give Julie another start? (was Sub for lard?)


"Blinky the Shark" > wrote

> Nancy Young wrote:


>> I have its it's issues. I can't get it that the possessive doesn't have
>> an apostrophe. Why???? Heh.

>
> Do these *other* possessive pronouns have an apostrophe?
>
> hers
> theirs
> yours
> ours
>
> No.
>
> "Its" isn't even an exception; it illustrates the *norm*.


Do you say hers hats? Hers rock?

nancy