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RE: inherent plurals, etc.

d'Armond Speers, Ph.D. ([email protected])

• From: "d'Armond Speers, Ph.D." <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: inherent plurals, etc.
• Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 13:56:24 -0600
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>

Philip wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 10:28:08 -0600, "d'Armond Speers, Ph.D."
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> {lolSeHcha} - attitide-control thrusters
>> {'eDSeHcha} - take-off / landing thrusters
> 
> I imagine we can say with confidence that these are plural nouns (that
> take a singular verb) based on the fact that they appear to contain
> 'cha', which is such an inherently plural noun.

Yeah, but {cha} is "torpedoes," which doesn't really make sense.

> Philip
> HovpoH 2269.33

--Holtej

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