Re: Greek plurals
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 13, 2007, 19:24 |
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On 9/13/07, caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:
> >"Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
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> >(we don't use the term "electric" as a noun at all).
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> Not necessarily so. Here in southern Appalachia "electric" is used as
> a noun, as in "I need some help in paying my electric;" or "The
> electric has been turned off." I daresay it occurs in other regional
> dialects as well.
My mistake. I've personally only encountered such usage in
Rightpondian speech, but I should know better by now than to relegate
it universally thither on that basis. :)
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>