On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:08:33 -0800, James Stroud wrote: > Yes. I think it was the British who decided that the apostrophe rule for > "it" would be reversed from normal usage relative to just about every > other noun. I'm not sure the purpose--maybe it was to give compulsive > proofreaders a raison d'etre.
It's because "it" is a pronoun; you don't put an apostrophe in "his," either. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
