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Re: Typo in manual


From: Reuben Thomas
Subject: Re: Typo in manual
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:11:37 +0100 (BST)
User-agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20)

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

Hi Reuben,

Thanks for the report.

* Reuben Thomas wrote on Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 05:30:53PM CEST:
"None of these rules do support" -> "None of these rules supports"

(Two corrections: "do" is redundant, "None" is singular.)

Hmm, I guess.  I needed to look at
<http://www.llrx.com/columns/grammar1.htm>

Yeah, I see it says "singular or plural", and I wouldn't complain much about a plural use. Pedants on this side of the pond tend to prefer singular, though, and I feel that the distinction can be used to good effect depending on context: singular where there's an "each" feel and plural for an "all" vibe.

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