If a Viking Can Get It Right…

rogersgeorge on March 22nd, 2020

We should be able to get it right too! Bottom row:

https://www.comicskingdom.com/hagar-the-horrible/2020-01-19

There—refers to something, including the rest of a sentence
Their—belongs to something or someone
They’re—contraction of “they are.”

Though personally, I don’t think the King of England would get it wrong…

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