ther

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   eye dialect: there

   Ther ain't any mistake about it.

2. 2
   det

   eye dialect: their

   They carried ther bags into the house.

3. 3
   contraction

   eye dialect: there's or there will

   Ther'll be enough room for everyone.

An eye-dialect spelling used by nineteenth-century writers for several unstressed or regional pronunciations of there and their, including contractions such as ther's and ther'll. Context determines the standard equivalent.

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