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Joel Brown
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Since your's and her's are virtually always incorrect in modern English, one way to answer your question is to look at the frequency of those terms in published books.

Searching Google Ngram Viewer for your's and her's shows the terms peaking in popularity around Jane Austen's lifetime and virtually extinct by 1850.

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Since your's and her's are virtually always incorrect in modern English, one way to answer your question is to look at the frequency of those terms in published books.

Searching Google Ngram Viewer for your's and her's shows the terms peaking in popularity around Jane Austen's lifetime and virtually extinct by 1850.

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Since your's and her's are virtually always incorrect in modern English, one way to answer your question is to look at the frequency of those terms in published books.

Searching Google Ngram Viewer for your's and her's shows the terms peaking in popularity around Jane Austen's lifetime and virtually extinct by 1850.

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Since forms like your's and her's are basicallyvirtually always incorrect in modern English, one way to answer your question is to look at the frequency of those wordsterms in published books.

I'm not sure how representative the corpusSearching Google Ngram Viewer for Google's Ngram Viewer is prior to 1800, but if you search for "your's, her's"your's and her's you'll seeshows the terms peaking in popularity around Jane Austen's lifetime and virtually extinct by 1850.

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Since forms like your's and her's are basically always incorrect in modern English, one way to answer your question is to look at the frequency of those words in published books.

I'm not sure how representative the corpus for Google's Ngram Viewer is prior to 1800, but if you search for "your's, her's" you'll see the terms peaking in popularity around Jane Austen's lifetime and virtually extinct by 1850.

Since your's and her's are virtually always incorrect in modern English, one way to answer your question is to look at the frequency of those terms in published books.

Searching Google Ngram Viewer for your's and her's shows the terms peaking in popularity around Jane Austen's lifetime and virtually extinct by 1850.

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sjy
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Since forms like your's and her's are basically always incorrect in modern English, one way to answer your question is to look at the frequency of those words in published books.

I'm not sure how representative the corpus for Google's Ngram Viewer is prior to 1800, but if you search for "your's, her's" you'll see the terms peaking in popularity around Jane Austen's lifetime and virtually extinct by 1850.