Hour vs Yer - What's the difference?
hour | yer |
A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.
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*1661 , , [http://archive.org/stream/a615775104worduoft/a615775104worduoft_djvu.txt The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond]
*:During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
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*:It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
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A season, moment, time or stound.
*(Edgar Allen Poe) (1809-1849), Alone :
*:From childhood's hour I have not been / As others were; I have not seen / As others saw; I could not bring / My passions from a common spring.
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*:Now will be a good hour to show you Milly Erne's grave.
(lb) The time.
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Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
*T. C. G. James and Sebastian Cox, The Battle of Britain :
*:By 1300 hours the position was fairly clear.
(UK, slang, or, dialectal)
* 1991 , Thomas Hayden, The Killing Frost , London: Random Century Group
:1997 , , (w, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone) , iv:
::‘Las’]] time I saw you, you was only a baby,’ said the giant. ‘[[yeh, Yeh look a lot like yer' dad, but yeh’ve got ' yer mum’s eyes.’
(UK, slang, or, dialectal, uncommon)
*1992 , Mary Jane Staples, Sergeant Joe
*:'Still, yer got nice looks,' said Ella.
(UK, slang, or, dialectal) , yes.
(UK, slang, or, dialectal) , you are.
*1991 , Kathleen Dayus, Where There's Life , London: Virago Press Ltd
*:Yer a lotta nosey parkers.
:1997 , , (w, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone) , iv:
::‘Ah, go boil yer heads, both of yeh,’ said Hagrid. ‘Harry – yer a wizard.’
Either of the letters in Cyrillic alphabets, which originally represented phonemically the ultra-short vowels in Slavic languages.
As nouns the difference between hour and yer
is that hour is a time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day while yer is either of the letters ъ and ь in Cyrillic alphabets, which originally represented phonemically the ultra-short vowels in Slavic languages.As a pronoun yer is
eye dialect of lang=en.As an adverb yer is
eye dialect of yeah1|lang=en, yes.As a contraction yer is
eye dialect of you're1|lang=en, you are.hour
English
Alternative forms
* hower (archaic)Noun
(wikipedia hour) (en noun)Synonyms
* stound (obsolete)Derived terms
* ampere-hour * canonical hour * credit hour * eleventh hour * F-Hour * finest hour * flower-of-an-hour * H-hour * half-hour * happy hour * hour angle * hour circle * hourglass/hour glass/hour-glass * hourless * hour hand * hourly * kilowatt-hour * man-hour * off-hour * on the hour * person-hour * quarter-hour * rush hour * witching hour * zero hour (hour)Abbreviations
* Singular: h, hr * Plural: h, hrsStatistics
* 1000 English basic wordsyer
English
Etymology 1
Pronoun
(English Pronouns)- 'Make yer way down to the station,' he said.