Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 00:21:54 -0500

From: "Gregory J. Pulliam" HUMPULLIAM[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MINNA.ACC.IIT.EDU

Subject: Re: there's



I've been paying attention to this trent for several years--have heard plural

_there's_ in prepared speech [tv newscasts--"there's many reasons..."], in

newspapers [Chicago Tribune], magazines [Newsweek, Time], as well as conversation. My own opinion is that its contractive nature is being lost at the "deep

structure level" [whatever that may be], and it's become an inveterate expleteive. GPulliam HUMPULLIAM[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]minna.acc.iit.edu