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Originally Posted by HarryT
Oh, absolutely; it wasn't meant as a criticism. All I meant is that there are a lot of posters here who are obviously highly literate, but still don't know the difference between "its" and "it's", for example.
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I do a lot of proofreading, and very few writers seem to know how to use an apostrophe. Even some of the better known ones with "real" publishers, but I won't name any of them. When you see their work in print (or on a screen) you're seeing it filtered through lots of different people.