post-mortem human subjects
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Nov 5 04:25:10 UTC 2010
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Paul Frank <paulfrank at post.harvard.edu> wrote:
> How come people don't singularize the word "trivia"?
My WAG: it's very rare as the subject of a sentence.
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-Wilson
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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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