Re: CHAT: Yorkshire/Texas (was: dl)
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 24, 2001, 21:49 |
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Andrew Chaney wrote:
> Indeed, if memory serves, pre-civil war (1860-ish) the US was much more
> a loose conglomerate of states rather than the unified entity it is today.
Not all that loose. But it did, interestingly, take plural agreement,
and phrases like "The United States, or any of them" would seem very
strange today.
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