On Friday 26 January 2007 5:36 am, caeruleancentaur wrote:
> >Reilly Schlaier <schlaier@...> wrote:
>
> >ive noticed that in the last six months to a year that people in my
> >area have been replacing are and were with is and was this sounds
> >very odd to me and i was wondering if anyone else had experienced
> >this?
>
> One of my current pet peeves is the use of "there's" when "there're" /D
> {r\r\=/ (?) or "there are" should be used.
>
> Charlie
> http:wiki/frath.net/senjecas
>
There's a recent article on Language Log suggesting that "there's" is becoming
an indeclinable thing functionally somewhat distinct from the uncontracted
form(s). Like Spanish 'Hay'.
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/
The article is:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004035.html
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