To HATE it when people say "your" instead of "you're"

[Twitterqueen]

I realise this should probably be in pedants' corner but I am becoming more and more irritated at so many posters misusing the word 'your'. It's lazy, it doesn't make sense and it's just wrong.

And yes, I'm in a bad mood today.

"If your going to the shops can you buy x,y,z...." NO NO NO. The word is you're! The apostrophe denotes a missing letter and an abbreviation!
You a're.

The word 'your' is possessive. So you could say "If your chauffeur is going to the shops today..." or daughter, or son.

Rant over.

liz70 "How do you know he wasn't saying " 've"? Surely they sound much the same?"

That is precisely why I wrote that he "clearly said "of". It was not "'ve" it was "of" otherwise I wouldn't have noticed would I?. "'ve" wouldn't have caught my attention. He said "of" clearly.

Your cranky today aren't you

I know the difference and find myself picking up on it when others do it but still catch myself every now and then. Especially somewhere informal like here.

Whether/weather annoys the shite out of me though!

Your being unreasonable

Their, There and They're don't really bother me, neither does Your and You're.

Bought and Brought however. I don't understand how people get this wrong. It isn't always an auto correct problem either.

"That is precisely why I wrote that he "clearly said "of". It was not "'ve" it was "of" otherwise I wouldn't have noticed would I?. "'ve" wouldn't have caught my attention. He said "of" clearly."

All right, keep your hair on. So you've exposed Matthew Shite as a grammar pleb. Write a disgruntled letter to the BBC. Or is it ITV. (I don't watch morning telly).

It does affect the way people are viewed though.
If I get a candidate who can't use their/there/they're correctly (or your/you're) I do judge. It's never people who learned English as a foreign language - only native speakers. Most of our communication at work is by email and poor spelling and grammar is noticed. It reflects poorly on the user.
I have sympathy for people who are dyslexic but it's so widespread and so much more common in the under 30s that it must be down to changes in either schooling or reading levels.

Yabu. These threads are so tedious.

I know the correct usage but as we all do sometimes write it incorrectly or spellcheck it incorrectly. I fucking loathe being corrected by a friend or peer . I'm not a child and as pp have said bore off it bothers some and not others .

Also misuse of words in a way that makes it obvious people don't read (because otherwise they'd see it written correctly.

Should of /have
Weather/wether
Effect/affect
Insure/ensure
Principal/principle

It's a slippery slope that ends up at Chester draws before you know it.

... Shuffles off back to pedant's corner, muttering to self.

These type of threads are so fucking tiresome.

I have two teens who do this. I am crap at grammar but I know my your and you're and there and their. They don't seem to care but then half their fb posts seem to be in a different language.

I really struggle with grammar, so I just try to make my posts clear enough for people to understand and if it is important that my grammar is spot on I will spend ages on it and look things up. I can do it but it doesn't come naturally to me, when I did my diploma it took me ages to write my essays because I have to really slow down and double check things.

Are you suggesting there's a difference in pronunciation?

There is!

Your kind of rhymes with paw

You're kind of rhymes with sure

Not to me.

The anti-pedantry has been taken care of, but, really, this?

I was watching The Wright Stuff this meaning and Matthew Wright clearly said "of" when he meant "have". I thought he would know better.

Ouch. How can you correct his grammar when yours is like this?

If i am typing i sometimes for get the ' and type your instead you should see my random there/theirs would drive you nuts

That's just a typo.

Meaning= morning

Every time someone starts a thread like this you can guarantee the OP will make mistakes

Lol at chauffer example

"there's a difference in pronunciation?"

Where I'm from "you're" is said "yore", whereas " your" tends to come out as "yer".

So (as prounounced) " Yore off out in a hurry. You've (or even yer've or yuv) forgotten yer wallet."

I would rarely pronounce "your" like "yore" unless I was emphasising the word.

"JeanneDeMontbaston That was a typo* which I corrected in the following post.

Sorry to be pedantic skiptonlass, but shouldn't that be weather/whether?

grunt, I wasn't referring to the typo, but to the grammar in the original.

Oh I see. Well, I'm not a trained journalist, unlike Matthew Wright, but please feel free to correct the sentence without the typo.

"I was watching The Wright Stuff this morning and Matthew Wright clearly said "of" when he meant "have". I thought he would know better."

Did I type a full stop instead of a comma or something? My punctuation is not very good by any means. I am not highly educated, having left school at 16, but I do know the difference between 'of' and 'have' and I can spell.

YANBU. M'o'r'e' a'p'o's't'r'o'p'h'e's' c'a'n' o'n'l'y' b'e' a' g'o'o'd' t'h'i'n'g.

If JeanneDeMontbaston isn't here at the moment, would someone else please tell me what was wrong with the grammar in the sentence? I feel really worried now as I have obviously been writing ungrammatically all my life. I'm now scared to write anything to be honest.