tomiant@piefed.social to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 month agoThe apostrophe in it's is writing out only the dot over an i.message-squaremessage-square16linkfedilinkarrow-up140arrow-down15
arrow-up135arrow-down1message-squareThe apostrophe in it's is writing out only the dot over an i.tomiant@piefed.social to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 month agomessage-square16linkfedilink
minus-squarebetterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 month agoThe apostrophe looks like someone popped the tittle off an ‘i’ and smeared it a little. With that in mind, going from “it is” to “it’s” just discards the vertical line from ‘i’ and moves things together.
The apostrophe looks like someone popped the tittle off an ‘i’ and smeared it a little. With that in mind, going from “it is” to “it’s” just discards the vertical line from ‘i’ and moves things together.