The Guardian style guide thinks so:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/styleguide/page/0,,184827,00.html
it's
shortened form of it is or it has: it's a big dog; it's been ages since I saw her
its
possessive form of it: the dog is eating its bone
BugBear
aktullly he's just trying to exkuze a mistake ...
- tho' he wouldn't usually put "hes" for "he is", or "its" for "it is" -
he's never properly understood (and he and his sister, a grammarian who
once worked for OUD, have discussed it vigorously, even virulently) why
"it's", as the possesive, is wrong.
it
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:29:43 +0100, Peter Fairbrother
As a boy, many many years ago, I decided to remove heavy smoke
blackening from camping equipment which had been used for cooking over an
open fire. I bought caustic soda crystals from the local hardware store
and made up a solution which I had in a large old metal bath perched on a
table. At some stage I dropped a pot and as I straightened from picking it
up, my shoulder caught the table and brought the whole lot over me.
I was the only one at home at the time and it was fifty yards from
the old air raid shelter, my shed, to the kitchen and a water supply. In
the short time it took to get there, the skin on one of my palms became
detached as I tried to turn the door handle. I stripped off all my clothes
and leapt straight into a bath, which probably saved a nasty fright from
turning into a major accident. Even so, sixty years later, I still have a
line of scars around an ankle where a few undissolved crystals had lodged
in the top of a sock.
I endorse all Peter says! :}
--
Chris Edwards (in deepest Dorset) "....there *must* be an easier way!"
I've got a nice round scar on my leg from playing with potassium chlorate and
concentrated nitric acid. Not very much at all, but far too far away from
water...
I think it used to be called education. I suspect that it was far more
efficient than the class wearing goggles and lab coats in order to watch a
video.
Mark Rand
RTFM
Glad someone mentioned this. I have not heard of paint stripper damaging
brass before. I have used Travis Perkins brand paintstripper on brass
without any visible damage, but it could be a different formulation to
Nitromors.
Best wishes,
Chris
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