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

On 5/30/06, caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:
> >Dana Nutter <sasxsek@...> wrote:
> >But then again, what would happen to "there", "their" and "they're"?
>
> 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.
Uhm, that's not "they're" (short for "they are").  That's "there're",
short for "there are".  Which is, indeed, largely replaced by "there
is"/"there's" in idiomatic English, but that has nothing to do with
"they're", which is still quite alive and well in popular use.

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>