"Slights of hand"

[Randy Alexander]

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
>> COCA gives:
>> 177 sleight of hand
>> 10 slights of hand <<
>> 1 slight of hands
>> 9 slight of hand
>> 1 slights of hand <<
>> 0 slight of hands
>
> what's up with the two marked lines?

Oops.  The second line should be:
10 sleights of hand

Another one!  The third line should be:
1 sleight of hands

Thanks for catching that!

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Randy Alexander
Jilin City, China
My Manchu studies blog:
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