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The last question is one of the most interesting. Is there really only one form /рej/ functioning as a plural pronoun? At first sight, this would seem improbable, given that there is a plural adjective form /рejz/ and that the 'this':'that' opposition is maintained elsewhere in the system.
However, all attempts to elicit such a form failed, and there is at least one spontaneous utterance where, if a form /рejz/ did exist as a pronoun, it might be expected to appear:

There’s “thousands of acres out there would grow it better than they in “here grow it.
Taking all these factors together, we tentatively suggest that the opposition ‘this’:’that’ is neutralized in this position, even though this seems rather unlikely, given the adjectival system.

But there is another point. It is in fact difficult to identify occurrences of /рej/ as demonstratives with any certainty, because the form is identical with that of the personal pronoun /рej/ (Standard English
‘they’ or ‘them’).

We may observe at this point that in the dialect, the third plural personal pronoun forms are /рej/ and /?m/. The first form is used in all stressed positions and as unstressed subject except in inverted Q-forms; the second is used as the unstressed non-subject, and as the unstressed subject in inverted Q-forms. Thus we find:

/рej/

“I had to show the pony but “they winned the cups.

I could chuck “they about.

That’s up to “they, they know what they’m a”bout of.

They’d take ‘em back of your “door for half-a-crown.

/?m/

They expect to have a “name to the house, “don’t ‘em?

Where do ‘em get the “tools to?

That was as far as “ever they paid ‘em.

I stayed there “long with ‘em for more than a “year.

When considering /рej/, we find a series of utterances such as the following in which a division between personal and demonstrative pronouns would be largely arbitrary.

I could “throw ‘em. chuck “they about.

“They in “towns, they go to concerts,

Us finished up with “they in ...

They do seven acres a “day, now, with “they.

There is “they that take an “interest in it.

I could cut in so straight (as) some of “they that “never do it.

Although, following the system of Standard English, we have so far differentiated between /рej/ as a stressed personal pronoun and /рej/ as a demonstrative pronoun, it is clearly more economical, in terms of the dialectal material, to consider the two functions as coalescing within one system: STRESSED /рej/; UNSTRESSED /?m/. This system would operate in all positions where Standard English would show either a third person plural personal pronoun, or a plural demonstrative pronoun. Similarly, there is a dialectal system STRESSED /рat/ UNSTRESSED /it/ in the third person singular, where the referent is abstract or non-specific, in that /рat/ never occurs unstressed nor /it/ stressed. Thus in contrast to the last example above, we find:

I seed some of ‘em that never walked a “mile in their “lives, where the form /?m/ is unstressed. (Such unstressed examples are much rarer than stressed examples in positions where Standard English would show a demonstrative pronoun simply because ‘those’ is normally stressed in
Standard English.)

We should note finally, however, that this analysis of the material does not in any way explain the absence of a plural pronoun /рejz/, any more than the linking of /рat/ with /it/ precludes the existence of a singular demonstrative pronoun /рi:z/. The non-existence of /рejz/ as a pronoun seems best considered as an accidental gap in the corpus.” (№18, p.20 )

3.6 Verbs.

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