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| From | Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.os.development |
| Subject | Re: The morality of operating system security |
| Date | 2016-05-03 16:55 -0400 |
| Organization | Aioe.org NNTP Server |
| Message-ID | <20160503165548.0baa42a3@_> (permalink) |
| References | (8 earlier) <nfn7e8$tqn$1@dont-email.me> <20160426235820.1cd18000@_> <nfpke2$jgv$1@dont-email.me> <20160427054214.182c3530@_> <ng8m9m$ms2$1@dont-email.me> |
On Tue, 3 May 2016 00:05:26 +0100 James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> wrote: > On 27/04/2016 10:42, Rod Pemberton wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 07:01:44 +0100 > > James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Courgette - Zucchini > > > > ??? > > Why the question marks? It seemed strange. The others at least made some sense to me. I've never heard or seen the word "courgette" before. It sounds like a French word or a derivative. > >> Fish (plural) - Fishes > > > > I think that one is "fish" here too ... > > Generally, most uses are plural. I.e., > > "a fish" would be singular, I think. > > "My fish" would be taken as singular also. > > It's likely that "group of" or "school of" > > would be added to "My fish" if it was meant > > to be plural, e.g., "My school of fish". > > What about "a dozen fish"? > Would you say "a dozen fishes"? > I'd say "a dozen fish." I'd take "fish" in "a dozen fish" to be singular due to use of "dozen." I seriously wouldn't doubt it that Americans somewhere are using "fishes," but I don't know if you're just messing with me a bit ... I've noticed that "whomever" is being consistently replaced with "whoever" now in AmE, even for news articles. I'm not sure if people just gave up or if this is an accepted change. Most here still can't get the usage of "than" versus "then" correct either. Recently, I read that younger Americans only place one space between sentences. That's just for starters. I keep thinking of "A Fish Called Wanda" for some reason. Searching for that movie, an old American idiom came up: "to sleep with the fishes," meaning that you were murdered. That uses "fishes" as a plural. So, that's at least two exceptions. I'm not sure how frequent the exceptions are in AmE. The real question is why "fishes" would be the plural instead of "fishs" ... What's the point of adding a silent 'e'? Rod Pemberton
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Re: The morality of operating system security James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-04-01 23:10 +0100
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Re: The morality of operating system security "wolfgang kern" <nowhere@never.at> - 2016-04-01 09:58 +0200
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Re: The morality of operating system security Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-03-29 17:39 -0400
Re: The morality of operating system security James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-03-31 00:13 +0100
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Re: The morality of operating system security Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-03-31 16:57 -0400
Re: The morality of operating system security James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-04-01 09:22 +0100
Re: The morality of operating system security Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-04-01 20:24 -0400
Re: The morality of operating system security James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-04-09 18:25 +0100
Re: The morality of operating system security Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-04-09 18:57 -0400
Re: The morality of operating system security James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-04-26 09:07 +0100
Re: The morality of operating system security Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-04-26 23:58 -0400
Re: The morality of operating system security James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-04-27 07:01 +0100
Re: The morality of operating system security Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-04-27 05:42 -0400
Re: The morality of operating system security James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-05-03 00:05 +0100
Re: The morality of operating system security Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-05-03 16:55 -0400
Re: The morality of operating system security James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-05-04 09:00 +0100
Re: The morality of operating system security Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-05-04 17:22 -0400
Re: The morality of operating system security James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-05-05 17:02 +0100
Re: The morality of operating system security Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-05-05 17:55 -0400
Re: The morality of operating system security "Kerr Mudd-John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2016-05-09 14:58 +0100
Re: The morality of operating system security Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-05-12 17:46 -0400
Re: The morality of operating system security James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-05-15 00:11 +0100
Re: The morality of operating system security James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-04-27 07:44 +0100
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