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From: stevemac@bud.indirect.com (Steve MacGregor)
Subject: "A is B" - which is subject ?
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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 08:54:58 GMT
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According to rte@elmo.lz.att.com (Ralph T. Edwards):

>There are three reasons.
>
>"*There is three reasons" makes my teeth hurt.  Never-the-less it is
>becoming increasingly common.

  I always say, "There =are= three reason," unless I'm in a hurry, in
which case I contract "there are" to "there's".  This contraction is only
slightly weirder than the contraction of "will not" to "won't" and "am
not" to "aren't" (as in, "I'm right -- aren't I?").
  Do extraneous hyphens inserted into words such as "nevertheless" hurt 
your teeth, too?

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