Apostrophes

[yrieithydd]

I was amused last night to come up with a sentence where both it's and its were correct. There is an analogue clock in my room which I've been suspecting for a while of going slowly. It was still ticking last night but didn't seemed to have moved at all since the night before (when it seemed to have lost 2 hours in 24). I thought to myself, `I think that the clock's stopped, for all it's ticking' and continued putting books upright on shelves. Then I replayed the sentence and thought, mmmm, that could have been `I think that the clock's stopped for all its ticking'.

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[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Squee! I am unreasonably excited by that. Can we have one where "it's" meaning "it has" is also ok? :)