Word: pluralism
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...minutes you are: In the library writing my overdue essays...plural...
...deeply ingrained in the institutional memory of the Holden Choirs—a memory that stretches back further than the Crimson’s archives—that whenever a Holden singer discusses anything that the choruses have done, they’ll use the first person plural. As a result, 19-year-old students with laptops in bag and cell phones in pocket develop a verbal tic of referring to high jinks they enjoyed during the late nineteenth century or early 1970s...
...What are you going to do about his S-H-O-T-S,” the nurse asks, pausing dramatically before she surreptitiously spells the dreaded plural noun. This hadn’t occurred to April...
...Verlaine's employer is actually a powerful Nephilim (Trussoni uses this word as both singular and plural, which I'm not sure I buy) named Percival, who suffers from a disease that has rotted his once glorious wings into gross little stumps. He's searching for a divine lyre that could cure him. Evangeline, meanwhile, turns out to be from a family of angelologists, a secret order devoted to studying angels and opposing the Nephilim...
Quite frankly, Harvard College is not a plural noun. It is a single community, not the sum total of 12 independent institutions that happen to be located in the same zip code. Enforcing restrictions, including but not limited to the new policies at Lowell and Winthrop, only serves to fracture the College into House units—distinctions randomly assigned in freshman spring that should determine only a student’s address, not the quality of his or her overall Harvard experience. While House pride can add a positive dimension to the undergraduate experience, it should derive from more...