quoted 8 lines Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 14:27:50 -0000
> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 14:27:50 -0000
> From: "Simon Dennis" <simon.dennis@akqa.com>
> Subject: RE: [idm] vinyl?
> don't mean to be picky, but can we keep it to 'vinyl',
> not plural 'vinyls'...
>
>singular: vinyl
>plural: vinyl
Mostly the English word "vinyl" operates like "rice" or "money" or
"people". It's what's normally called an uncountable noun. If you can put
an "-s" on the end, that denotes distinct varieties or kinds rather than
more than one of the noun.
Number is denoted by prefacing the uncountable noun with a unit of measure.
eg. "I picked up a few slabs of vinyl today".
All the apostrophe freaks can piss off. There are no rules to apostrophe
use in English, or at least none that anyone follows, so don't assert
otherwise. What I mean is, if a linguist turned up from outer space and
tried to determine the meaning of an apostrophe in written English, I'm
sure they wouldn't be able to.
Hopefully this is at least amusing for someone, at my expense or otherwise. :-D
Michael
-+-
Involve Records
http://involverecords.com
Jet Jaguar MP3s (latest upload Nov2000)
http://mp3.com/jetjag
-+-
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org
For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org