[stupac2]

Pretty sure if you Googled "their" and "they're" or "its" and "It's" and "its'" you'd find that wrong usages run neck and nick with correct usages. I don't think vox populi is necessarily the best test on this.

My entire point is that it actually is when the term doesn't lead to any confusion. Messing up those could make a sentence hard to read, but saying "Will our offensive line gel in time?" doesn't. And since the top results are largely made up of professional sports writers it's hardly like this is the unwashed masses skewing the result.

I get that a large segment of this board is made up of professional editors/writers who care very deeply about this stuff, but sometimes the dictionary is not the best resource on whether something is a correct usage.

[stupac2]

Pretty sure if you Googled "their" and "they're" or "its" and "It's" and "its'" you'd find that wrong usages run neck and nick with correct usages. I don't think vox populi is necessarily the best test on this.

My entire point is that it actually is when the term doesn't lead to any confusion. Messing up those could make a sentence hard to read, but saying "Will our offensive line gel in time?" doesn't. And since the top results are largely made up of professional sports writers it's hardly like this is the unwashed masses skewing the result.

I get that a large segment of this board is made up of professional editors/writers who care very deeply about this stuff, but sometimes the dictionary is not the best resource on whether something is a correct usage.