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Yere vs Yure - What's the difference?

yere | yure |

As a pronoun yere

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

As a determiner yure is

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As a noun yure is

(yorkshire|lancashire) hair.

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. ----

    yure

    English

    Etymology 1

    Determiner

    (head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1891, author=Kate Sanborn, title=Adopting An Abandoned Farm, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I've heard of yure old lot. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1919, author=Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, title=Joy in the Morning, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=But as soone as you can come to yure loving own girl--ROBINA." }}

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • (Yorkshire, Lancashire) hair
  • * {{quote-book, year=1862, author=Edwin Waugh, title=Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Aw know'd him when his yure stickt out at top ov his hat; and his shurt would ha' hanged eawt beheend, too,--like a Wigan lantron,--iv he'd had a shurt. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1898, author=John Hartley, title=Yorkshire Lyrics, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Her skin wor all a deep blue black, / Her yure , a dark braan red. }}