Do you pronounce your and you’re the same way?

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1. For me, it’s a very slight difference – “you’re” being more drawn out, for lack of a better way to describe it.

2. I pronounce them the same. I have no idea how else one would pronounce them.

3. Yes, how do you pronounce each?

4. Yes

5. In isolation I would pronounce you and you’re differently but on the other hand I would say “your welcome” and “you’re welcome” exactly the same.

6. For me:

   Your is more like yore

   You’re is more like yewer (but one syllable)

   The difference is really subtle in how I do it.

7. Your rhymes with more

   You’re rhymes with pure, more or less

8. Of course.

9. They are pronounced the same.

10. No. Yore and yoo-er.

11. They can both be pronounced “yer” or “yore” depending on the flow of the sentence, how fast I’m talking, etc.

12. Well I thought I said them both the same way, and then I realized I pronounce them both the same way, in different ways, if that makes sense. I will use both the normal pronunciation of your and you’re as well as pronouncing both as “yer” in certain situations.

    A few examples:

    “Yer not coming?”

    “Well, thats yer perogative.”

    “Yer mom called earlier.”

13. Yes. They are perfect homophones for me. I can’t even imagine what they would sound like differently.

14. Your is your. That’s it.

15. I typically prounce both as “yer”. Maybe “you’re” is slightly more drawn out? Unless I’m really enunciating the your/you’re, as in *You’re* going to work today? Would be prounced “yore”, and “that’s *your* car would also be prounced ” yore”

    Edit: actually, now playing with it enunciating “you/you’re” as “yer” also feels natural. I prolly do both.

16. I just said aloud to myself the sentence: “You’re sure that you left your jacket at home” and I could swear that I said those two words ever so slightly different.

    I think I say your like a slightly more drawn out version of yer.

    I also catch myself saying ‘ya’ instead of your a lot.

17. Different, as follows: “Yore gonna have to get yer dog.”

18. I actually don’t think I do shit I never realized that. Your is more like “yaw” and you’re is more like “you’ar” I drop the r less on you’re

19. Yes. I pronounce them exactly the same.

20. Poor OP was really hoping for that controversy karma

21. Most of the time, they’re the same – “yorr.” Sometimes, or if I need to emphasize the difference, “you’re” gets said as “you-er,” almost rhyming with pure. My dad is Canadian, though, which is almost certainly where I get it (that’s one of the main tells between an American and Canadian accent, alongside “sore-y” for sorry.)

22. Yes. I’m from the part of the country that has basically every possible pronunciation merger there is.

23. Incidentally this is why I always insist that your/you’re (and they’re/their/there) mixups are spelling errors, not grammatical ones. Any competent English speaker knows the difference between the words themselves, they just have trouble with the spelling.

24. your goddam right i do

25. They both sound like “yer” when pronounced but I use the appropriate one when writing/typing

26. Oh god I was going to comment “no way they sound the same wtf” and then I asked my wife and she said I do pronounce them differently.

    To my horror she recorded me and replayed it to my incredulous ears. Lo and behold when I say “your” it comes out similar to “yore” and when I said “you’re” it comes out more like “yowr”

    There is definitely a bit of inflection in “you’re” I am aghast and appalled.

27. For me, your sounds more like “yore” and you’re sounds like “yure.”

28. Yes

29. They’re both “yor” to me. But I have heard some people who give “you’re” more of a “yoo-r”

30. Almost. There is a very *VERY* subtle difference.

    “Your” is… “Yore”. “You’re” is slightly more like “Yew-ore” but very rapidly transitioning.

31. No, they are different. Your and you are.

32. I end up sound like I’m saying “yer” or “yur”. I pronounce them the same way, but I often pronounce ‘You are’ fully.

33. Yor and yur

34. Yes, I pronounce them differently: yor for your and yer for you’re

    And that’s why I never spell them wrong. 🤷🏼‍♀️

35. Yes

36. I’m probably annoying but I will say “yore” (for your) and “yoor” (for you’re)

37. I pronounce them differently, but they are close. It’s not a pronounced difference.

    In texting, beyond people not being careful with writing, autocorrect can put the wrong one.

38. Yes

    Same as there, they’re and their.

39. Not me! Your is more like “yer” and the contraction is more like “yore.”

40. I pronounce them with “your” rhyming with “oar” and “you’re” more like “yer”

41. Yes, I pronounce them the same.

42. Yes, but both more as “yuh”

43. It has a lot to do with the phonetic environment each word arises in (the sounds of the words before and after them). In isolation, mine probably sound a bit different, but it isn’t remarkable.

44. Yes, of course. But *your* is more prone to vowel reduction.

45. Nope.

    You’re = “yoor” (or maybe “yoo-er?”)
    Your = “yore”

46. I pronounce you’re as ‘you-er,’ but very subtley. It just makes sense to my brain since it’s a contraction of you and are. You-re. And your is ‘yore.’ I grew up in the midwest, though, so maybe it is a dialect thing.

47. I never thought about this but I pronounce “your” like it rhymes with “tour” and “you’re” like “yer” and idk why lol

48. Your – ‘yore’

    You’re – “yur’ as in the first syllable of Europe.