Re: One And A Half

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