[Ads-l] most/majority

Dan Goncharoff thegonch at GMAIL.COM
Tue Oct 22 16:58:42 UTC 2019


Or "the most" instead of "most".

On Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 12:40 PM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From NPR's hourly news this morning (the 10/22/2019 8AM ET set here
> https://www.npr.org/podcasts/500005/npr-news-now )
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> "With Trudeau winning most of the seats but not a majority. . . ".
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> I suppose he meant "plurality" instead of "most".
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