friends, friend's, friends'

$friends == $friend+$friend;
$friend's == $friend[$thing];
$friends' == $friends[$thing];

$its == $it[$thing];
$it's == $it . $is;
$its' != 1;

Worse...

$her's != 1;
$his's != 1;
$their's != 1;

$hers == $her[$thing];
$his == $his[$thing];
$theirs == $their[$thing];

yeah ok, think I got it...

English is screwy.

I was confused about the it's/its thing once too. Fixed it by first getting rid of "it's" from my vocabulary, and used "it is" instead. That way I could tell myself that I can't use apostrophes with "it" anywhere. Once I got used to using "its" to mean possession, I re-introduced "it's" as a contraction of "it is". Not had a problem since.

I'm still trying to drum it into my brain but it's funny, I understand the code better than I understand the English...ahh! Whats happening? I'm a geek...oh well.

I've been taking English since kindergarden and still don't completly understand it. Don't worry.

That was a very cool example, Suzanne.