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The pronouns they/them/their/theirs and she are all Norse in origin (well, actually, it's not entirely clear where she came from, but it's probably Norse). All other personal pronouns in English trace themselves straight back to Old English and beyond that to West Germanic, Proto-Indo-European, and so on.
You missed Brinestone's point. She was saying that no other personal pronouns have apostrophes, so neither does its.
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Hm. But that's still a supplemental issue in the post - I was trying to make sure you won't jump on me because I used something correct.
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I'm honestly not sure which post you're referring to right now. That's what the "huh" was about.
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(I never paid attention to grammar so I can't participate. Parallel structure? What's that? Oh, I use that ordinarily.)
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It's not much of a war, really. Jon had his head handed to him a while ago, but he hasn't noticed yet.
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I've looked at your posts, Jonathan, but I don't know which one I missed the original intent of. I can't read your mind.
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It's not too much of an issue. I was just trying to get at your husband - which failed, so the score is still 101 => 1, in his favour.
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