Learn Your Damn Homophones

Urbane Guerrilla · 01-05-2010, 12:25 PM

Of yore I knew the difference between your and you're. I vividly remember the results from one fellow who didn't, and split the difference with Y O U apostrophe R. It wasn't even a typo; it was intended as the possessive, and on a hand-lettered sign.

Decent training in the language would fix this in all but the most thickheaded. It did so in my day.

monster · 01-05-2010, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Urban Gorilla

Of yore I knew the difference between your and you're. I vividly remember the results from one fellow who didn't, and split the difference with Y O U apostrophe R. It wasn't even a typo; it was intended as the possessive, and on a hand-lettered sign.

Decent training in the language would fix this in all but the most thickheaded. It did so in my day.

Carruthers · 01-05-2010, 01:57 PM

Variations on apostrophe catastrophes............

There was a road sign not too far from here giving directions to 'St. Mary,s Church & Centre'.

Also, a local company had its entire fleet of vans emblazoned 'Robinson,s'*. The proprietor was a deeply unpleasant man and deserved the ridicule. Having said that, most people probably thought it was grammatically correct.

E & OE

Carruthers

PS * The name has been changed to protect the guilty.

01-05-2010, 12:25 PM	#1
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Of yore I knew the difference between your and you're. I vividly remember the results from one fellow who didn't, and split the difference with Y O U apostrophe R. It wasn't even a typo; it was intended as the possessive, and on a hand-lettered sign. Decent training in the language would fix this in all but the most thickheaded. It did so in my day. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

01-05-2010, 01:57 PM	#3
Carruthers Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Buckinghamshire UK Posts: 4,059	Variations on apostrophe catastrophes............ There was a road sign not too far from here giving directions to 'St. Mary,s Church & Centre'. Also, a local company had its entire fleet of vans emblazoned 'Robinson,s'. The proprietor was a deeply unpleasant man and deserved the ridicule. Having said that, most people probably thought it was grammatically correct. E & OE Carruthers PS The name has been changed to protect the guilty.

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