Re: Trip Report Days 6 - 7


"Keane" <keane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:45:06 -0700 (PDT), Blossom
<dznyknitter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Oct 22, 4:23 pm, Keane <ke...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There's bathrooms right across the street... :-)

Okay, language police...
What is the contraction for 'there are'? I'm fairly certain it isn't
"there're" <how the heck would you say that anyway?> Maybe there isn't
one...

Blossom

Oh no! I've been called on the carpet by the language police!

There is no such word as there're, nor any word that's contracted
from 'there are'. The grammar police sites on the Web has not come to
any consensus, but I did read a couple of references that there're
would have been too difficult to pronounce in a lot of dialects.

So 'there are' reverts to the singular version of "there's".

Both are incorrect. Someone dropped the ball on this one.
Who's in charge of English these days?


Unless it's a dictatorship or monarchy, that "who" is probably plural. So it
should be "Who're in charge of..."

And I don't know the answer to either question, neither.

tom


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