Nick Rout wrote:

On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 21:23 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
the're
?
Yes, indeed!

"They're" is the trans-atlantic patois form.
Anyway that's what I was taught at school all those years ago.

Interesting, here is me thinking you had made a pselling mistake.
They are / them are = the're
   - a non-specific generalisation, rarely used.
   - derived from grrr.

:-)

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