[Ads-l] From a headline:

[Jonathan Lighter]

The latest example of the hypercorrect faux plural. (I've already recorded
the disbelief of my 2002 intro linguistics class that news anchors   had
started saying routinely "the jobs market."  The trend s now endemic.

Anyway, there's more than one woman in the band, right?  And more than one
job on the market.

(I suppose we should say, '"more than one job available," since no "job"
can logically be "on [top of]" a [figurative] market.  Put the logic back
in language!.)

JL

On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 5:42 AM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> "The All-_Women_ Mariachi Group"
>
> Shouldn't that be "the all-_woman_ mariachi group"? Or should one of the
> wonders of my lost youth have been "Phil Spitalny and his All-_Girls_
> Orchestra" and not "... his All-_Girl_ Orchestra"? Or is this one of those
> changes like the shift of e.g. American "this, that, and the other" to
> British "this, that and the other." Or should that be, '... and the
> other'.?
>
>
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