George Thompson's researches

[Dennis R. Preston]

'Well-established' can be 'on its way out.' Me and Lynne can't use it.

dInIs

>On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Lynne Murphy wrote:
>
>>  Both Fred and Jesse refer to George Thompson's 'researches' in telling us
>>  about the NYT article.  Am I the only one here who can't use that as a
>>  count noun?
>
>It was a count noun before it was ever a mass noun, and is still well
>established as a count noun.
>
>Fred Shapiro
>
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