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We use 'You’re' as contraction of 'you are' and it is often followed by the present participle (verb form ending in -ing,  like welcome).

Your example, "Your" is the second person possessive adjective, used to describe something as belonging to you. 'Your' is always followed by a noun or gerund.

"Your" and 'You're' is not apples to apples.

You’re welcome!

...whilst Daycare world, the artificially intelligent despot drag queen and spiky festive foliage with human body parts are all so very understandable?

I am aware of that; thanks.  Reading the thread you may notice that I posted the dialogue exchange from the movie (above) to explain that somehow I remember or associate the word 'snuck' (a word which seems to have started as a North American colloquial expression and one that I don't hear that much here in England), with the old movie Josey Wales.

However, when out of interest, I pulled up the script for the scene I envisage when I hear the word 'snuck' I was surprised to find that the word 'snuck' doesn't actually feature within the passage of script that I assumed it did.

It has been more than a decade since I watched that movie.

I do understand the concept of tense within grammar, but thanks anyway.

I guess that you'd know best what bigots say. Object of fun that you are. Charles, the original 'pointy out person.'

When it comes to;

 
Typos are typos and grammar is grammar; or possibly grammer in your case.

Here is the foreigners view;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P0RpzzN5XY

I see. So within text and conversation you prefer to use the original Germanic derivatives like, angr for anger, flakka for flag, kaldaz for cold, kōuz for Cow, tækanan for undertake, prikojan for prick,  et al....

Must be my hearing that's gone awry!

The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

Josey Wales: Seems like you was looking to gain some money here.
Lone Watie: Actually, I was looking to gain an edge. I thought you might be someone who would sneak up behind me with a gun.
Josey Wales: Where'd you ever get an idea like that? Besides it ain't supposed to be easy to sneak up behind an Indian
Lone Watie: I'm an Indian, all right; but here in the nation they call us the "civilized tribe". They call us "civilized" because we're easy to sneak up on. White men have been sneaking up on us for years.

Even the Josie Wales don't say 'snuck'!!

Maybe snuck will sneak into the 2018 remake.

Germanic versus Latinate equivalents in English is an interesting subject. Classic English novelists like Austen and Dickens have their brutish, dangerous and unintelligent antagonist characters using the Germanic variants and the heroic, intelligent and lovable protagonists, employing the Latinate alternatives. The effect on the reader is largely subliminal, but powerful all the same.

And, ahem...  Germanic is NOT always a single, sharp syllable, and the alternative is a slippery one and half.

Germanic - abandon - Latinate - desert
Germanic - allegiance -  Latinate - loyalty
Germanic - anger - Latinate - rage
Germanic - beforehand - Latinate - prior
Germanic - choose - Latinate - opt
Germanic - freezing - Latinate - frigid
Germanic - deadly - Latinate - fatal
Germanic - lifetime - Latinate - age
Germanic - banquet -Latinate - dine
Germanic - happiness - Latinate - joy
Germanic - harbour - Latinate - port
Germanic - island - Latinate - isle
Germanic - warranted - Latinate - just
Germanic - outlandish - Latinate - strange

Source = http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/4/389.abstract
English has two main sources for words: German and Latin. Distinct from each other, they have polarized our language into high diction and low (‘diglossia’). Latinate words denote the intellectual world; Germanic words, the physical. Latinate words are indicators of status and education. Austen painted and delineated her characters by giving their speeches different densities of Latinate words. Higher densities of Latinate words sometimes indicate intelligence and moral seriousness, at other times, they expose a character's formality or hypocrisy. Lower densities indicate lesser intelligence or, in the case of sailors, humble birth. The characters whose densities are very close to the narrator are Austen's four great heroines, Elinor Dashwood, Elizabeth Bennet, Emma Woodhouse, and Anne Elliot.

To some Americans there is only America. The universe of America

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