tomiant@piefed.social to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agoThe apostrophe in it's is writing out only the dot over an i.message-squaremessage-square15linkfedilinkarrow-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-22 months agomessage-square15linkfedilink
minus-squarebetterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 months 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.