Re: De (los) Estados Unidos

From: Brian M. Scott (b.scott_at_csuohio.edu)
Date: 09/16/04 

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:11:10 -0400

On 16 Sep 2004 09:53:02 -0700, Nigel Greenwood
<ndsg_mmii@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in
<news:7a31b7bf.0409160853.4cfadeb8@posting.google.com> in
sci.lang:

> Des Small <des.small@bristol.ac.uk> wrote

> <...>

>> It is only with conscious effort that I can find it at all surprising
>> that the score *** for an innings in which a side was all out should
>> include one batsman with "not out" by their name.

> US readers should note that in cricket-playing countries "innings" is
> a singular noun.

... which is also its own plural.

Brian

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