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epivosism
on May 26, 2018
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Ghostery exposed everyone's email address in its G...
"it's" ALWAYS means "it is" or "it has". Therefore, the title should be "its", which surprisingly is a word.
smnrchrds
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> "it's" ALWAYS means "it is"
No. It can also mean "it has", e.g.:
It's been 18 years since the turn of the century.
wmeredith
on May 26, 2018
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It’s not all that surprising if you think of “its” in the same vein as “his” and “hers”.
OJFord
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It's dual of his and _her_; not of 'hers'. (In which form 'his' is unchanged.)
solarkraft
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It does get weird when thinking of situations like Tom's, Ghostery's, mother's ...
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