Talk:it's

homonym/homophone
changed "homonyms" to "homophones"... a homonym is a word that is SPELLED identically to another word, but with a different meaning, such as "read" and "read" (as in, present and past tense of read). A homophone is a word that has an identical sound but different spelling to another word, in this case "its" and "it's". Please correct me if I'm wrong.

One or two words?
Obviously "it's" is a contraction of, for example, "it is", but does "it's" still count as two words, or is it seen as a single word?

It's meaning there's: "colloquial"?
As far as I know, this expletive "it" in place of expletive "there" is a feature of AAVE, not simple colloquial English. I'm not a linguist, but can anyone else refute or support? Mr. Nile (talk) 20:27, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

ɪtɪs
Is this a spelling pronunciation? If so, why not include its variant with a schwa vowel too? JMGN (talk) 00:12, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
 * It was added in diff. It seems incorrect. I've simply undone that edit. - -sche (discuss) 00:16, 11 April 2024 (UTC)