Saturday, June 17, 2017

word choice - Using "them" in lieu of "their"

In the chorus of the song "Gone Country" by Alan Jackson, there is this sentence:




She/He's gone country, look at them boots




How come them is used instead of their? I am not a native English speaker so I am interested in knowing about this peculiar (at least to me) word choice.



This existing thread would tend to indicate that them can be used for that, but look at that boots don't really make sense?

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