Ok language gurus

[Roger Wright]

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[Lost User]

Senkwe Chanda wrote: sucks Are you sure that's not suck's or sucks'? ;P ;P Paul ;)

That demands capital punishment!! Death by a herd of marauding Bobs! - Ryan Binns

[Niall Barr]

As you said, its is a possessive pronoun, like his, her and their. In English apostrophes are used both in the possessive form of nouns and in abbreviations, but not in possessive pronouns. So, captains is the plural of captain, captains' is the possessive plural and captain's can be either a possessive singular or an abbreviation of captain is (which would normally only be used when quoting spoken words).

[leppie]

Ja boet :) leppie::AllocCPArticle("Zee blog");
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[Nic Rowan]

Oooo Tough crowd... Hope my Bronze 5 can save your witty comment from a fate worse than deletion :-D (I know how you feel - I NEVER EVER leave out smilies nowadays :))

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[Miszou]

Yeah, my 2 yr old son is having a real hard time with it! Chinese seems much easier. (according to a Chinese speaking cow-orker :~ )