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Yere vs Yerb - What's the difference?

yere | yerb |

As a pronoun yere

is your (plural); of ye, belonging to ye.

As a noun yerb is

eye dialect of lang=en.

yere

English

Pronoun

  • (Irish) your (plural); of ye, belonging to ye
  • * 2001 Martin McDonagh The Lieutenant of Inishmore , Scene 8:
    • What I want ye to remember, as the bullets come out through yere foreheads, is
  • * 2012 Kerry O'Shea Edinburgh’s Fringe festival thinks The Rubberbandits are English IrishCentral 27 July 2012:
    • The Rubberbandits took to their Twitter (@Rubberbandits) on Tuesday in the wake of the Fringe fest’s apparent typo saying that, “@edfringe As much as we'd love to swear allegiance to Lizzie. Could ye change our country of origin from "England" to Ireland on yere site?” (sic)
  • * 2012 Christy O'Connor " The first great rivalry of the 21st century" Irish Independent , 28 July 2012:
    • "I've been listening to yere' s**** there all day about how great ye are," he told them. "Who the hell do ye think ye are with ' yere two All-Irelands and one ambush?"

    Usage notes

    Especially in the south and west of Ireland. The yod-dropping pronunciation is more dialectal. ----

    yerb

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1850, author=William Cullen Bryant, title=Letters of a Traveller, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="At the same time we got a yerb " (such was his pronunciation) "on the hills, which some call lion-heart, and others snake-head." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1895, author=Charles Egbert Craddock, title=The Phantoms Of The Foot-Bridge, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=When he ventured to sneeze, Mrs. Roxby compounded and administered a "yerb tea," a sovereign remedy against colds, which he tasted on compulsion and in great doubt, and swallowed with alacrity and confidence, finding its basis the easily recognizable "toddy." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1911, author=Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, title=Brother Copas, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The ancients, by which I mean the Greeks, set amazin' store by the yerb . }}

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