Spelling lesson of the moment: weird and seize ignore the "I before E except after C, and when sounded like A, as in neighbor and weigh" orthographic rule.
Now if only we can keep everyone mindful of the rule that possessive nouns are formed with 's and possessives of pronouns never use an apostrophe but just an S. This is there to prevent confusion between possessives of pronouns and contractions with pronouns, whose meaning is utterly different -- in case no one's ever explained that to you. Confuses native speakers every day of the week, but that's mostly because they never got it, for whatever reason, in elementary school.
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Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.
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