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From: Peter Hullah <Peter.Hullah@eurocontrol.fr>
Subject: Re: them versus him/she, which is correct?
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Linda Reynolds wrote:
> Thank you, John David Chao.  I stand corrected.  I did see a reference to
> "there's" being a contraction for "there are".

This is quite common in my neck of the woods: "There's twenty cats over there"
Isn't it everywhere?

Pete


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