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Difference between its and it's
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21/09/2006 10:09:13
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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>>>My former manager once told me, that two most common mistakes native speakers do are "it's/its" wrong usage and using word "irregardless" <g>
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>>>I noiticed recently that my son's teacher spelled "yogurt" wrongly in the paper distributed to homes...
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>>My friend's daughter (back home) wrote "helihopter" in her homework. Parents noticed, and she almost burst into tears: "I know, it's helikopter, but I must write it like this because teacher does so".
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>Probably due to the teacher's accent? and the e european "C-H" pronunciation/approixmation to western "K"?

Not even close. H is just slightly more aspired than the English h (as in "him", not in the thousand places where h is not a h), and k exactly the same as in English.

And "because teacher does so" means "teacher writes it so". And pronounces as well - we're phonetic, remember?

It's the illiteracy. Equalization by similarity - just as some people would say name "x and y" as "iks i iksilon" instead of "iks i ipsilon", or would call messrs. Laurel and Hardy "Stanlio & Olio". And they'd never notice any error in their ways.

back to same old

the first online autobiography, unfinished by design
What, me reckless? I'm full of recks!
Balkans, eh? Count them.
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