Q: 'die', 'dice'
Christian Kay
C.Kay at englang.arts.gla.ac.uk
Wed Apr 4 11:33:29 UTC 2001
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On 3 Apr 01, at 15:57, John Hewson wrote:
>From a British perspective, it's perhaps also worth noting that
"pence" has been recategorised as a singular (one pence change)
but I haven't yet heard "pences"!
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