tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1021450099193451157.post110071460512495210..comments2024-03-13T14:50:33.210-05:00Comments on Words Going Wild: The Apostrophe: It’s Finding Its PlaceJim Bernhardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02002078047052060275noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1021450099193451157.post-33922835181679742632010-12-17T13:00:14.721-06:002010-12-17T13:00:14.721-06:00"It's" can also be a contraction of ..."It's" can also be a contraction of "it has", don't forget, as in "It's been raining cats and dogs! I just stepped in a poodle!"<br />The correlate [is that the word I mean?] of this, which drives me insane[r], is one that a "colleague" (the term is used oh-so-loosely) uses ALL THE FREAKIN' TIME: "of" instead of "have," as in "I would of done it but I decided to go out for margaritas instead." I'm assuming this is what linguini would call "hypercorrection" from the contraction "I would've" ... but still.frogprofnoreply@blogger.com