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Subject:	Re: Lugnet can always grow; it's up to us to make it happen.
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Date:	Sun, 4 Nov 2001 18:07:15 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Maggie Cambron writes: > > I rarely can respond to things at such length > > anymore, but it really warranted a kudos. (Yea, kudos is > > singular, blame the Greeks.) > > Okay, Lindsay, I made a special trip from the second floor down to the basement > to check my OED compact edition on this. Are you sure the word takes an > indefinite article? None of the examples gave any indication that it does. I'm pretty sure that it's an abstract noun (so by itself "kudos" should be article free). But was it okay for Lindsay to break that rule to make his point clearer? > Maggie C. (Queen of living on less-- I got the OED-- the two volume slip-cased > edition with the magnifier in a little drawer-- for 2 bucks from a garage > sale!) !!!! ...we are not worthy... --DaveL

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		Re: Lugnet can always grow; it's up to us to make it happen.
(...) Heck, I wasn't even sure if he HAD broken a rule. The dictionary also said it was a colloquialism, particularly in academia, and since my copy is an edition last updated in 1974, I figured if anyone was up on the latest on the evolution of the (...) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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		Re: Lugnet can always grow; it's up to us to make it happen.
(...) Well, it could happen. When I was in college a friend of mine knew a fellow student who bought a large bag of lentils once a week and lived all week on lentil soup. Toward the end of the week when the lentils ran out she went hungry, so my (...) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.general)

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