Your vs Yore - What's the difference?
your | yore |
Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).
Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners).
A determiner that conveys familiarity and mutual knowledge of the modified noun.
* Glanvill
(poetic) time long past
(obsolete) In time long past; long ago.
* Spenser
As a determiner your
is belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).As a noun yore is
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English
(wikipedia your)Determiner
- Let's meet tomorrow at your convenience .
- Is this your cat?
- Not your average Tom, Dick and Harry.
- Your Show of Shows
- Your World with Neil Cavuto
- Not Your Average Travel Guide
- Like your heroes of antiquity, he charges in iron.
Usage notes
* In US English, is frequent even in positions of stress. * The use of your instead of you're is a common mistake in English.See also
(English personal pronouns)Statistics
* 1000 English basic wordsyore
English
Noun
(-)- This word comes from the days of yore .
Usage notes
A ; not used outside the phrase (of yore), especially the idiom days of yore.Adverb
(-)- Which though he hath polluted oft and yore , / Yet I to them for judgment just do fly.