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From: tgg@hpl.hp.com ()
Subject: Re: Which language pays most -- C++ vs. Java?
Date: 1998/02/16
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docdwarf@clark.net wrote:
|I am familiar with different rules of the plural being applied in
|BritSpeak, sure; 'the government are' and 'the ministry are' come to mind.

False. That's bad grammar in the UK.

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