[Ads-l] NYTimes.com: "The Daily News...

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Jun 30 05:02:00 UTC 2017


And, of course, that makes it grammatical. I get the picture, though the
distinction between the New York Times Online and the Grey Lady escapes me.

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 9:43 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not unusual. Here's a decade-old article from The Grey Lady herself:
>
> https://mobile.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/business/media/01paper.html
>
> "Sales have held fairly steady in recent years at the nation’s three
> largest-circulation newspapers,..."
>
> On Jun 29, 2017 9:11 PM, "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > the largest circulation newspaper in the country...
> >
> > goo.gl/YrTu5W
> >
> > Does the writer mean,
> >
> > "the _largest-circulationed_ newspaper in the country"?
> >
> > Or even,
> >
> > "the newspaper with the largest circulation in the country"?
> >
> > Youneverknow.
> >
> > --
> > -Wilson
> > -----
> > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > -Mark Twain
> >
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-- 
-Wilson
-----
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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