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Originally Posted by HarryT
Not an Americanism - just a very rare plural, but perfectly valid. Hardly surprising that spell-check dictionaries don't contain it.
"Theres" can never, ever be a substitute for "there's". The two usages are grammatically distinct.
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It's actually better that spell-check dictionaries do not contain it, letting them pick up on what is usually a typo (as it was in my case).
So the examples offered by dictionary.com in the link I supplied (all of which are printed as "theres" but mean "there is") must either be errors in the original source that dictionary.com has not validated, or maybe dictionary.com's script contains a bug that is stripping out the apostrophes.