Re: About linguistic (in)tolerance

nicole wrote:

> John Cowan wrote:
> > Ambrose Bierce tells us that the singular of "dice" is "die", but
> > that the word is rarely heard, due to the prohibitory proverb
> > "Never say 'die'".
> Do many other people on this list say "die" as the singular of dice?
> Because I know that my family and I use it all the time when playing
> games.
Yeah, I use it regularly, but the circumstances under which one *could* use
the singular are so uncommon that for all means and purposes, "dice" has no
singular.

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