Please state in which country your phrase tends to be used, what the phrase is, and what it should be.

Example:

In America, recently came across “back-petal”, instead of back-pedal. Also, still hearing “for all intensive purposes” instead of “for all intents and purposes”.

  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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    “The man’s arm” becomes “his arm” not “him’s arm”.

    Similarly, “the robot’s arm” becomes “its arm” not “it’s arm”

    But, “the man” you referred to does not become “hi”. “The robot” you mentioned does become “it”.

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      Right, and for pronouns you don’t just put apostrophe s after. So you don’t make “it” possessive by adding apostrophe s just like you don’t add apostrophe s to “he” or “him” to make it possessive.

      If you treat the pronoun “it” like a regular (non-pronoun) noun instead of like other pronouns, that is itself an exception.