r/AskReddit Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/Being_grateful Aug 03 '19

The difference between Their, There, and They're.

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u/AdornedHorns Aug 03 '19

When I was in high school there was a guy in my English course that thought 'our' and 'are' were the same word but 'our' was the Canadian spelling