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SueH
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Location: Northern Italy
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 Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 12:40 pm Post subject: Re: The vernacular |
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| Nevertheless I will conduct further field research and get some confirmation for my viewpoint in the pub before my team's next home game. |
Not sure whether quoting oneself is quite 'comme il faut', but I remain true to my word and did some research yesterday on the occasion of the Southampton-Leeds game.
An assortment of mature graduates, local taxi driver and others all agreed on the plural as their common usage. The recent English graduate with 1st class honours perhaps betrayed her lack of interest in football by introducing a dissenting note regarding possible correct usage and the theoretical underpinnings. Nevertheless her undoubted expertise was ignored and a satisfactory consensus achieved.
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