The grammar police are on the job 24/7.
Dum.m.m de dum dum.
>
>I’m glad that Jez, ChrisT and Jim were on the ball; I clearly wasn’t
>think straight when I answered Philippe’s email :-)
>
>>
>> It is what it is.
>>
>> Or: It's what it is.
>>
>> But not: It's what it's.
>>
>>>
>>> I can’t envisage any use of “it is” (or “it’s”) at the end of a
>>> sentence, Philippe, except perhaps colloquially or in older forms
>>> of the language. But the rule is that the possessive pronoun has
>>> no apostrophe, whereas the contraction of the phrase “it is” does.
>>>
>>
>
Chris
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- Hunter S. Thompson
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