Do you prefer X or Y?

Trollheart · 03-13-2014, 04:32 PM

This is why it's so hard to make a distinction between yours, as in , belonging to one person, and yours, belonging to a group. Hilariously, over here in backward Ireland we often use the made-up word "yizzers" --- it's like a combination of yours and youse, another made up word. We also use "yeer", which is like "ye" and, well, some form of yours. Never quite understood that one...

No, yours applies in its own form as a possessive whatever, I'm not really that up on the definitions. I've never seen any case where an apostrophe is used with it, even after the s.

03-13-2014, 04:32 PM	#11 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	This is why it's so hard to make a distinction between yours, as in , belonging to one person, and yours, belonging to a group. Hilariously, over here in backward Ireland we often use the made-up word "yizzers" --- it's like a combination of yours and youse, another made up word. We also use "yeer", which is like "ye" and, well, some form of yours. Never quite understood that one... No, yours applies in its own form as a possessive whatever, I'm not really that up on the definitions. I've never seen any case where an apostrophe is used with it, even after the s. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018