[Elecraft] OT: It's IT Cookies

[VE3GAM Allen McRorie]

just saw a program on Food Network the other day, apparently there is 
a chocolate covered ice cream cookie called "It's It" in San Francisco,
they looked pretty good

Al  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Morrow" <kk5f at earthlink.net>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Use of "ITS" vs "IT'S" (OT)


> Ron wrote:
> 
>> Every time I write a phrase using _its_ or _it's_ I have to
>> stop and think about it.
> 
> Other very common errors are:
> (1)  Misuse of "your" and "you're",
> (2)  Misuse of "their" and "there" and "they're",
> (3)  Misuse "to" and "too".
> 
> We all make such errors on occasion, but when any individual
> native English speaker commits these errors persistently, it
> reflects badly on that individual even in informal communication.
> For the sake of personal pride, I try to avoid these errors,
> even though I know that the message would still be understood.
> 
> Keith wrote:
> 
>> I'm just glad that CW is for the most part a punctuation-free
>> mode!
> 
> Morse has a rich assortment of punctuation, including one for
> the apostrophe (.----.).  I learned many 30 years ago while
> preparing for my commercial radiotelegraph license exam.  When
> Notice to Mariner bulletins (NAVAREAs and HYDROLANTs) were still
> being sent in Morse on the maritime HF bands, one came across
> frequent use of the open parenthesis (-.--.), close parenthesis
> (-.--.-), and colon (---...).  Today I still write "=" whenever
> I hear the -...- (BT) combination.  Even Army MARS Morse bulletins
> 25 years ago sometimes used them, most likely due to inexperience
> on the part of someone using a Morse keyboard to prepare the
> broadcast.  The general membership did not seem to like such
> surprises in the text that they were trying to copy!
> 
> Mike / KK5F
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