Whenever I see mistakes with people making mistakes with “you’re” and “your,” I like to pretend they actually meant the homonym’s lesser known middle sibling, yore. So when I see someone type, “I want you’re house!” I think, so do I!
So if you’re ever not sure whether you should write “your” or “you’re,” consider “yore” instead. It might actually make more sense.
I make this mistake all the time and it’s embarassing because I’m a writer. When I don’t catch it I secretly worry the rest of the day that people think I’m stupid.
File this one next to Allie’s “Alot” in my brain
Perfectly hilarious!
Smiling x
Yes! Yes! Yes! “Yore” it shall be.
I don’t get what yore trying to say.
Ha!
Now please do one on to/too/two. Oh, oh, and lose/loose, it’s/its, there/their/they’re … Thanks for your service to literacy.
I haven’t heard the word ‘yore’ in ages. I hope you realise that I am now going to use this at every particular turn and that this is entirely yore fault.
Ha! The Yore Slut is my favourite.
Your right. There dumb.
I see what you did there.
Ha.
All I can say is yore awesome.
Haha! I get it…so funny
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[morosely] You left out Eeyore… if it matters. Which I doubt..
Yore right!
Exactly right. It’s not a particularly taxing thing to grasp. Like “their”, “there” and “they’re”. Also infuriating for the pedantic individual that I have become.