Posted by anthonyberet on 03/20/06 00:30

Hammerer wrote:
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>>nope, 1.8 legs is still legs and 1.8 thousands is still thousands :)
>>
>
> And £1.8 in good old sterling is "pounds"? No! It's £1 and 80 shiny, new
> pence! Twenty shiny, new pence short of *2* pounds sterling! Really,
> anthonyberet . . . . hold together a cogent argument, whu don't you?!
>
You thought you had gotten away with this didn't you?
Well lookee here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural

Extract:"For example, in English, German, Italian, Spanish and
Portuguese, the plural form is used for zero or more than one, and the
singular for one thing only."

Therefore, 1,800 which is clearly not 'one thousand only', must be
thousand_s_

Goodness, I am fantastic sometimes. ;)

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