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Re: One And A Half

From:Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 13, 2004, 22:08
In a message dated 10/13/2004 5:58:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
markjreed@MAIL.COM writes:

>Gah. That should read "1 degree". The whole point of the message, >and I screw up the example. Sigh.
In a context in which I'm reading measurements aloud, like "One point two seven centimeters", I might also say "one point zero zero centimeters" with a plural, even though that's equal to "one centimeter", which is singluar. Doug