Sunday, May 25, 2008

Is it too much to ask...

...that H-W copy editors know the difference between "its" and "it's"?

5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

But was it written incorrectly first on Whig.com?

7:11 AM  
Blogger Allthenewsthatfits said...

No doubt it was. On the other hand, nobody else seems to be able to remember the difference nowadays either, so why hold the Whig to a different standard, right? And don't get me started on the noun-pronoun disagreements I hear on NPR just about every day.

4:12 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Does it really matter? 80% of Quincy can't seem to grasp the concept of proper use of the apostrophe.

8:34 AM  
Blogger Allthenewsthatfits said...

Considering that the grammar checker on Microsoft Word just suggested "he are" as a correction in something I was writing, maybe I should just give up.

6:03 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Consider the number of times you can hear "I ain't got no" and other poor grammar usage in Quincy any given day. Are your standards set to high ?

7:10 AM  

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