Subject: Re: [lpny_manhattan] 2nd Amendment Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 14:47:13 -0400 To: From: Bob Armstrong On Tue, 27 May 2003 13:24:38 -0400, Gary Popkin wrote: >=A0Do you think that Thomas Jefferson didn't know the correct use= of "it's" and >=A0"its" in 1787? =A0This is surely an error in transcription. =A0I= would be >=A0crushed to think it's Jefferson's error: > >=A0"And what country can preserve it's liberties, ... " Are you sure the usage was the same back then ? My attitude , which I used to practice aggressively , is more Andrew Jackson's ( From http://cosy.com/rules.htm ) : anyone who can't spell a perfectly good word in at least two perfectly good ways just lacks imagination. ;) --=A0 =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 NEW : Newsletter : http://cosy.com/K/CoSy/NL200305.htm Ultimate Computing Environment : =A0http://cosy.com/K/CoSy.htm=A0 A WTC vision : http://cosy.com/CoSy/ConicAllConnect/ =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A02003/05/27 2:42:09 PM