You're saying that wrong...

It should be written - your guys' support. The extra s after guys is not needed, as the apostrophe goes after the plural S.

Otherwise I don't see anything wrong with the phrase though it is a bit awkward. Without your support is normal. Without the support of you guys - could work. Without the support from all you guys - is better. Your guys' support - is OK though. So I think. 🤔
 
I can't believe we didn't talk about this one yet, but I have noticed it many times: people often substitute the word "amount" for "number".

People say "amount of knives", for example, which is incorrect. It is "number of knives".

Number is for countable nouns. Amount is for uncountable nouns. Number of people. Amount of snow.
 
SharpBits said:
That's a huge quantity of amounts.
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I find this a bit of a paradox. 'Amount' is normally uncountable (the amount/quantity of snow), but in your sentence you made 'amounts' countable—so strictly it should be 'number of amounts.' Of course you knew that, and your multilayered, maniacal comedic genius just broke English (more). Well played.
 
I like to use the on vegetarians. Man shall not live by bread alone. I’ve done this several times and never been called out on it.
 
Watching History's Greatest Warriors, and in the episode about Vikings, one of the guys keeps saying particularily instead of partucularly.
 
Oh no. I would probably turn it off the second time. 😬

I've seen other examples... in fact there was one YouTube video, I can't even remember which one now, where the speaker said "effectively" about every three to four sentences. Wasn't even saying it wrong. But it was never necessary to the sentence, and got so grating that I paused the video, and scrolled the comments to see if anyone else had noticed.... a bunch of people were making fun of it. Also, I never resumed the video.
 
I worked for a principal who always said "pogrom" instead of program. Like "the head start pogrom", or "the aftercare pogrom".
It always made me have to stifle a laugh when she said it.
 
Not funny regardless of gender.
 
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