George Thompson's researches

[Daniel Ezra Johnson]

Along the same line, I've noticed "mails" recently, referring to email,
where I would (still) have to use "messages".

Daniel

> I said I couldn't say "researches" either, but to raise the ghost of
> "degrees of grammaticality," I am much happier with "researches" than
> "informations" and with "informations" than "furnitures."
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> dInIs
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> >I can't either.
> >
> >allen
> >maberry at u.washington.edu
> >
> >>  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?
> >>
> >>  Lynne
>