It's worth pointing out, given the beginning of the thread, that "there was" ~ "there were" variation has been examined in northern England. (Sali Tagliamonte, "Was/were variation across the generations: View from the city of York." Language Variation and Change, 10(2), pp. 153-191.)
Marisa Brook
http://individual.utoronto.ca/mbrook/
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Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 20:18:08 +0100
From: Marc FRYD <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Is vs. are research
Before this gets too cold, may I say that there is "there's", but there
is also "there was", isn't there?
e.g. There was three kings into the east (/John Barleycorn/, Robert Burns).
Marc
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