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Originally Posted by Dylrob
Given the contradictory nature of English genitive case (is possessive), I find it easier to just associate the ‘ with contractions.
Of course it also helps that I know that ' originally stood for an omitted vowel. Hence ’Twas (It was). The reason its used most of the time in English genitive case is because the ending used to be “es”. (That said, plurals also used to end in “es”, regardless of the word, and in fact you see the ‘ being used to substitute this missing e in old manuscripts as well)
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I like the his and hers helper because for me my fingers are typically on autopilot and type the apostrophe and I need to go back and eyeball it and ask myself if it should be there. When I see the incorrect one used by others it's almost always the contraction used when it should be the possessive sans apostrophe one.