--- feste37 wrote: > > btw, your admirable attempt to hold the line on "lie" rather than "lay" is I > fear > doomed to failure. The battle has been lost and I see no way of reversing it. > I > am concentrating my efforts these days on "off of," which I regard as an > abomination on a par with . . . no, better not get into that.
A few years ago I noticed a sea change in the use of the contraction for "there is." Now, routinely, people are saying "there's" whether they mean "there is" or "there are." Anybody else notice this? Even radio journalists are saying things like, "there's going to be many people who object to this usage." This kind of sweeping, all-of-a-sudden change among people who know better reinforces my belief that individuals are highly influenced by, if not in thrall to, collective consciousness. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
