Lazy Humans Always Take Linguistic Short Cuts

The erosion of ‘you’re’ for ‘your’ is just the latest example of a centuries-old habit

Back chat: English speakers in Chaucer’s day used short cuts, as we have done throughout history and still do today. Photo: Fine Art Photographic Library/Corbis via Getty Images

By Michael Skapinker

“You wanted sumptuous and sumptuous is what your going to get.”

Did you shriek “you’re going to get!” when you read that, or did it pass you by? Oxford Dictionaries says…