Re: USAGE: No rants! (USAGE: di"f"thong)

>>caeruleancentaur wrote at 2006-05-30 12:48:22 (-0000)
>>You can forget about "they're."  No one seems to use it any more,
>>substituting "there's" even when the subject is plural.  Look
>>through past messages.
>Tim May <butsuri@...> wrote:
>If you actually do that, you'll find that there're plenty of uses of
>"they're".  261 messages containing it so far this year, according to
>the web search.
My mistake! :-(  I meant to write "You can forget about _there're_,"
which, as I think about it, wasn't even mentioned!  Sorry.

Charlie