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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'.

Discussion of pronouncing LJ names on

atreic's journal reminded me of this odd snippet from my weekly phonecall home!

Dad told me that he'd been writing something and had started by saying `I am married' but when he'd finished he looked back having finished it said `I am period'. So he said to me `take the ee(/i:/) out of period and what do you have' to which I answered `perod' and sounded confused. He meant the letter e which leaves you with priod which is the Welsh for married whereas I'd removed the i (ee-dot in Welsh)! I'm not sure now whether I was thinking of the Welsh letter names (which like the Spanish ones make much more sense) or whether I was thinking in terms of sounds not letters so I took the /i:/ sound out of period, but it was just a very strange language confusion as the point was he'd got the wrong language and Word had auto-corrected him!