tnh
Joined: March 17, 2003 (email not validated)
Number of comments posted: 19
Number of votes received: 42
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Recent Comments
on: Control
I apologize for the English language, but there isn't a grea...
on: A position followed by a company name
The job title lost its initial article, not because it was p...
on: Text, A Text, Texts
Dariensan nailed it: some text (the words on one or several ...
on: A lot of water
May I offer a slight emendation to that? "Much" and "a l...
on: Future
You only say "in futures" if you work in futures trading. ...
on: How old am I?
Biks is right about the hyphenation. The rule there is that ...
on: Five of Ten
There's an older way to say that: "It lacks five minutes of ...
on: In and of itself
There's a functional difference. "In itself" is a more ambig...
on: Potboiler
Purple Dragon's right again. A potboiler is a commercial pro...
on: Neither is or neither are
Whoops, forgot. Jun-Dai Bates-Kobash asked what you do when ...
on: Neither is or neither are
I have to respectfully disagree with a couple of you. As use...
on: Fried Chicken
A live chicken is a single indivisible unit. Once it's kille...
on: Decades
I'm not hearing any common use of terms signifying which cen...
on: Taking sides
"Taking sides" is the common phrase, I suspect because that ...
on: Matching the tense
It's "is" because it's a general statement about a continuou...
on: ON the Lower East Side
The reporter was correct. It's colloquial New York usage. ...
on: Value
Purple Dragon's right. Anything can have value, or have some...
on: Sheep, Fish, and Cattle
English has a bunch of irregular nouns left over from its am...
March 18, 2003, 1:07am • 0 vote
on: Life or Lives
"The life of the people" is the collective social life of th...