End of ADS-L Digest - 26 Feb 1994 to 27 Feb 1994

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There are 17 messages totalling 294 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. there's (5)

 2. "Fall" as transitive verb (2)

 3. Texas town names

 4. <No subject given>

 5. Prescriptivist horror stories

 6. Removing myself from this service (2)

 7. Strange symbols

 8. attitude & prescription

 9. [El[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]nojz] (2)

 10. Spanish dialectologist consultant needed ASAP !!



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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