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Quoting Nancy Roberts <nancy.roberts@ns.sympatico.ca>:
> Would you say "deers" and "mooses"?
* http://pinicola.ca/devildic.pdf - pluralized singular: the
conviction that since populations of game animals (deer, grouse,
moose, trout, sheep, elk, bass, fish, and sometimes duck) are infinite
(as evidenced by the identity of their singular and plural names), it
doesn’t matter how many you kill, since any finite number is an
infinitesimal fraction of an infinite total.
fred.
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