Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Spell Check Dictionary

At 20:37 21/05/2014 -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> In almost all cases adding apostrophe "s" on the end of a word 
> denotes ownership, i.e. Tom's car, ..

With nouns and proper nouns, yes. (Actually grammatical possession, 
not ownership: Tom may own Tom's car but Tom does not own Tom's home town!)

> ... but to indicate ownership with the word it the 's' is added 
> without the apostrophe.

That's no exception: "it" is not a noun but a pronoun. You would no 
more put an apostrophe in the corresponding possessive pronoun "its" 
than you would write m'y our you'r or  hi's or he'r or ou'r or thei'r!

> Of course its could also indicate multiple quantities of its.

No: two its are a them.

> Then there are words like disgruntled.  Has anyone ever been gruntled?

No, but they have gruntled - that is, made little grunts. And dis- 
here is an intensifier, not a negator.

> Then too as in also, two as in one more then one, and to as in where 
> you are going.

Since when have homophones been a problem?

> There's lead as in the heavy metal, lead as in being shown the way, 
> lead as in showing the way.

Since when have homographs been a problem?  (Oh, and that middle 
example should be "led" anyway"!)

Brian Barker  


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