The plural of "moose" is ...
Joel S. Berson
Berson at ATT.NET
Thu Aug 19 17:08:23 UTC 2010
At 8/19/2010 10:58 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>"Hunting ducks in": about 218,000 estimated hits
>"Hunting duck in": 50 actual hits
>(a good number are irrelevant, of course, but Charlie's contrast
>comes out pretty clearly)
In contexts other than hunting (and/or ducks), does one often/rarely
find a plural without the plural form, as for the word "fish"? (I
suspect this is virtually impossible to search for via Google.)
Joel
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