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I just came across this paragraph:

There is so many incredible women that nobody can agree on which one are the best ones. Just for your pleasure and to make everyone happy we have agreed on a list of the 23 most beautiful women.

Why did the write use "is" and not "are"? the word women is a plural word.

curiousdannii
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Tom Lee
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    @Mari-LouA The same question was posted in ELL, There is or there are?. –  Jan 06 '16 at 08:54
  • @Mari-LouA After reading this, we seem to have two options, 1) close it as "duplicate" of your linked questions, or 2) close it as "duplicate" of ELL question. –  Jan 06 '16 at 09:01
  • I could find no evidence that this quotation is taken from an American news website, instead the citation appears to have been replicated many times across different sites. I found this page http://tubead.net/channel/UCoy_AH7QnetRyP0aczgsr7w where the description is identical, and it says the video clip was posted 3 weeks ago. I have not clicked on the video as it looks a bit suspicious to me.Here is another page with the same words exactly, it is from an Indian English website: http://news.priyo.com/2016/01/03/10-most-beautiful-women-world-554720.html – Mari-Lou A Jan 06 '16 at 09:09
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    I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it was previously posted on http://ell.stackexchange.com/, and the cited source has not been verified. – Mari-Lou A Jan 06 '16 at 09:12
  • This is covered by the duplicate. However, *which one are" is a far more egregious error. – Andrew Leach Jan 06 '16 at 11:26
  • And that quote does not appear in USA Today. Plenty of other places, but not USA Today. – Andrew Leach Jan 06 '16 at 11:27
  • My bad. I double checked. It was a sponsored content from USA Today. – Tom Lee Jan 06 '16 at 18:53
  • http://www.risottop.com/en/cheesy/the-15-most-beautiful-women-in-the-world/?utm_medium=taboola-en&utm_source=taboola&utm_content=acv0026&utm_source=taboola-en&utm_medium=referral&utm_term=usatodaydemo&utm_campaign=TAB_EN-ROW_d_Safeold08c – Tom Lee Jan 06 '16 at 18:53

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I'd say this is a grammatical error. The phrase "which one are the best ones" is also ungrammatical - "one" is singular, while "are" suggests plural.

There is so many incredible women that nobody can agree on which one are the best ones.

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You're absolutely right, it is an error.

Upon @Mari-Lou A's pedantic suggestion:

The colloquial version of the same sentence would look something like this:

There's so many incredible women that nobody can agree [...]

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  • No, it's not. It's colloquial, and very common in speech. And your post should have been left as a comment. How does this answer the question. "Why did they writers use "is" and not "are"? – Mari-Lou A Jan 06 '16 at 08:34
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    @Mari-LouA: I beg to differ. "There's so many incredible women ..." would be colloquial. The above example (no contraction) is just plain wrong. – Ricky Jan 06 '16 at 08:38
  • I agree the contracted form is more common, and your comment above would already improve your answer. – Mari-Lou A Jan 06 '16 at 08:39
  • @Mari-LouA: Have it your way. ... Excessive pedantry should be punished by spanking in a public place at noon. – Ricky Jan 06 '16 at 08:49
  • Wow, no one has ever called my suggestions pedantic before :) I'm quite chuffed. – Mari-Lou A Jan 06 '16 at 08:53
  • @Ricky - "There's so many incredible women" is also just plain wrong / an error. It might be common, but then so is "Banana's 25p" down at the market. "There're so many incredible women" would be both a colloquial contraction and correct. – AndyT Jan 06 '16 at 09:17