different between your vs yore

English

Alternative forms

• ur (informal, Internet, text messaging)
• ya, yer (informal)
• yo, yo' (African American Vernacular)

Etymology

From Middle English your, youre, from Old English ?ower, from Proto-Germanic *izweraz. Compare German euer.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /j??/, /j??/, (unstressed) /j?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• (US) enPR: yôr, IPA^(key): /j???/, /j???/, /j?/
• Rhymes: -o??, -??(?)
• Rhymes: -??(?) (some rhotic dialects)

• In US English, /j?/ is generally the unstressed version of /j???/; in many dialects, however, /j?/ is frequent even in positions of stress.

Determiner

your

1. Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).

   Let's meet tomorrow at your convenience.

   Is this your cat?

2. Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners).
3. A determiner that conveys familiarity and mutual knowledge of the modified noun.

   Not your average Tom, Dick and Harry.

   Your Show of Shows

   Your World with Neil Cavuto

   Not Your Average Travel Guide

4. (Ireland) That; the specified (usually used with a human referent)

   Your man just bought a new car.

   Have you seen what your one over there is doing?

Translations

Contraction

your

1. Misspelling of you're.

Usage notes

• The use of your instead of you're is a common mistake in written English.

See also

Middle English

Determiner

your

1. Alternative form of youre

English

Etymology

From Middle English yore, yoare, yare, ?ore, ?are, ?eare, from Old English ?e?ra (literally “of years”), of unclear origin but probably from Proto-Germanic *j?r??, the genitive plural of Proto-Germanic *j?r? (“year”). More at year.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: yô, IPA^(key): /j??/
• (General American) enPR: yôr, IPA^(key): /j??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: y?r, IPA^(key): /jo(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /jo?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: your, you're (accents with the pour–poor merger); yaw (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Noun

yore (uncountable)

1. (poetic) a time long past.

Usage notes

A fossil; virtually unused outside the phrase of yore, especially the idiom days of yore.

Synonyms

• foretime, yestertide; see also Thesaurus:the past

Translations

Adverb

yore (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) In time long past; long ago.

Synonyms

• long since, of old; see also Thesaurus:long ago

Anagrams

• Roye, oyer, yero

Middle English

Adverb

yore

1. yore (in a time long ago)
2. (with past participle) for a long time
   • c. 1300, Anonymous, "Alison" (as printed in Oxford Dictionary of English Verse, 1900):

     Ichabbe y-yerned yore.

References

• “y?re, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.