cross-post from Linguist List

[Mark A. Mandel]

This is getting more and more interesting. First we get "their" split out
from its (to most of us) homophones, then a different two-way split with
"they're" as the odd man out (from Wilson, not surprisingly... that is, I'm
not surprised by now that Wilson has interesting data to offer).

Let's see how this matches up with the merry/marry/Mary isoglosses.

-- Mark
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