• papalonian
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    16 hours ago

    “Them there [hills]” (usually pronounced more like “them thar”) is a common grammatically incorrect country-English phrase to basically mean “those [hills] over there”.

    “How much’choo wonna bet Ah coul’ throw uh pigskin over them thar mountains?” -> “Are you willing to place a wager on my ability to throw an American football over those mountains over there?”

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      8 hours ago

      “Dialectal” or “non-standard” is more accurate than “grammatically incorrect”, since “them there” is perfectly grammatical in those dialects.