unless there are higher standards

[svetlana14]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001njjr/politics-london-02072023 01:57

Why does he say /ðeəz/ in unless there are high standards? Is it about the fast speech like that "However, native speakers often use "there's" instead of "there're", which is ever faster."

 

[emsr2d2]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001njjr/politics-london-02072023 01:57

Why does he say /ðeəz/ in unless there are high standards? Is it about the fast speech as in "However, native speakers often use "there's" instead of "there're", which is ever even faster."

He says "... unless there's, uh, higher standards". Yes, we commonly use "There's" instead of "There are". I couldn't find the relevant point on the page you linked to, but whoever said that "there're" is faster (I assume they mean it takes less time to say it) than "there's", is wrong. "There's" has one syllable but "There're" has two syllables.