ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

now is Its a plural or is It's an abreviation


bill williams

it's a contraction

It is! Whereas, its, is genetive.

genetive? Contractions? Ummmmmmm? (pregnant pause?)

Orright I fixed it.

One of Spike Milligan's little gems is a skit where acquires a copy of Webster's Dictionary
" unpurged " and is interviewed by Valentine Dyal ( wonderful comic actor ) about his new found word power.
He says that he seeks out the big words and finds the big words by measuring them with a slide rule.
Spike tells how he found the word " ovipositor" which he decides must be an Irish word , O'vipositor. And how he got kicked off the bus for not paying the fare so he shouts at the conductor " perspicacity,mate.......that fixed him "

what in the hell does genetive mean she ain't in the dictionary

bill w

In my Oxford unpurged dictionary it is " genitive " It comes from a Latin word genitivus which sort of means to play mothers and fathers.

Indeed Marty. And related to generator, generation, genesis, progenitor and even genius, a description I could modestly apply to myself.

and don't forget - genuflect - as is only right and proper to do to show respect to such greatness

Thanks Neville for clearing up the confusion caused by my typo. Serves me right for playing silly bugbears.

Apostrophe:
It's a trap for the unwary...
(contraction)
case by case, its uses vary!
(genItive case)

Umm...what was the question again?

Cheers, Will.