IT’s pretty easy to remember:
There: A place
Their: Belongs to them
They’re: A contraction of They Are.
As for the pronunciation post above, “yer” is a regional affectation/inflection.
Believe me, the nuns would have been quite diligent in ensuring correct enunciation of ‘you’re’ had any of us been incorrectly pronouncing it.
Really.
Maybe my mental block and lack of caring is due to recalling Sister Ann Marie smacking the crap oy of my knuckles with that “clicker” or what ever that thing was to TRY to get me to properly perform Verb Conjugation.
I hated Catholic school and everything about it.My folks wasted a lot of $$$