Oral history on "uptight" (1966)

[Laurence Horn]

At 5:11 PM -0500 12/31/05, Wilson Gray wrote:
>The rule said that -
>
>If the sublect of a sentence is of the form, _a_ number [of people], then
>the verb must be plural: _a_ number [of people] _are_ sitting in the stands.
>
>If the subject of a sentence is of the form, _the_ number [of people, then
>the verb must be singular: _the_ number [of people] sitting in the stands
>_is_ small.
>
>-Wilson

Shoot.  I thought we had a new term of art here, "sublect".  (Well, I
may have come across "sublect" in the past, but not in the frame
"_____ of  a sentence".)  But no, just an old-fashioned typo, it
appears.

Larry