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.

Thanks Polkadots
That'll teach me ☺

Can someone explain the lyric 'See beneath your beautiful' to me? (That Labrinth thing.)

My dh has dreadful problems with grammar, I suspect he has undx dyslexia or something
He has a lower and upper classic degree and works in a highly regarded profession
He couldn't see that lightning and lightening were different things for example. Maybe just isn't grammar though

Liney there's been a whole thread dedicated to it. Eventually we worked out he'd lost his car keys and 'beautiful' is the name of her Yorkshire terrier.

I twitch when I see it but then it's forgotten. I don't know, it's so widespread and done by intelligent people too. I wonder if we can blame education or is it just a hard one for brains to process sometimes? I'm a great speller but I've occasionally proof read my posts and I've written 'your' by mistake. It's just not worth getting worked up over.

Thank you, Stealth. You have saved me.

I've started almost typing good look a few times. The double o primes my brain and look is actually a word. Surprised that isn't common.

Eg "good look with your exams"

I did actually have a good look with my first finals exam - khaki trousers and a dusky pink cap-sleeved tee-shirt - and I would have assumed you were referring to that.

I think the pink cap-sleeved tee-shirt might have been a mistake, on reflection.

At least people don't spell it the otter way: "Yaw".

It's always worth double-checking.

Love that tattoo. Believe in you're self but not you're grammar

I think "beneath your beautiful" implies that he's looking beyond the beauty a person possesses, so beneath your beautiful face, beneath your beautiful clothes, beneath your beautiful hair. All that "beauty is on the inside" nonsense peddled by ugly folk.

Probably entirely wrong, though.

YANBU.

Even my children don't dare text me with sloppy grammar.

I have been into a local deli to plead with them to correct their blackboard in the window promoting 'Panini's' which is all kinds of wrong.

TiMe there's a perfectly good noun already - 'beauty'

Exactly. I used to hear it as, 'See, beneath you're beautiful.'

But apparently it really is 'your'. And 'beautiful' is a noun.

So if you have a DC doing homophones you can get a bonus point for whether/wether/weather.

I pronounce the "h" in "whether" as some English speakers do, so these are not always homophones.

It's the difference between knowing your shit and knowing you're shit.

Yanbu OP. This winds me up. It's not people who haven't had a lot of schooling. It's people like my cousin, privately educated with two masters degrees, always with her head in a novel, lawyer - who does this out of pure laziness that really gets me. There's no way she doesn't know the difference.

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

this.

I blame the lack

Sorry!

I got a sext from a guy that said "take off you're bra" :((((( I'm really not a pedant (as you can see) as everyone is educated differently and knows different things but I had to stop talking to him.

I personally don't understand why so many people write 'loose' instead of 'lose' it really seems to be incredibly common on some discussion boards, FB and Twitter

Oldsu That's the most common mistake I see, it is everywhere!