Plural pedantry (was Re: [plug] stripping potentially nasty attachments)

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Sat Mar 27 22:58:27 WST 2004


James Devenish wrote:

| My personal favourite is a little slip-of-the-tongue that mathematicians
| and engineers might recognise: "a matricie" ;-)

I shall 'fess up to being guilty of this one myself.  Only once, to my
knowledge, and I realised what I'd said shortly afterwards, but still
inexcusable.

| PS. Don't forget our little problem with 'their'.

They're, they're :-P

Cameron.





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