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Old 10-24-2016, 08:23 AM   #24
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Originally Posted by gmw View Post
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.
Yes, I agree completely with both of these points.
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