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...enlist the services of Messrs. X and Y, to revive the old provision, whereby some of the members of the Council are elected by the Council itself. If everybody is to be represented, let us have among the representatives a few nobodies-the singular of which everybody is the plural. A. S. OLMSTRO...
...changes in grammar are very marked. Old French nouns had two cases, subject and object, descendants of the Latin nominative and accusative. As to number, very little distinction is made in modern French in speaking. In old French probably the plural was formed by s in the majority of cases. The word boeuf was pronounced bwef, and the plural bwes...
...Moulton began with the definition of the word humour and its derivation. It was derived from the Latin root meaning moistur and during the Middle Ages came to be applied in the plural to the moistures or juices which on old medical authority made up the constitution of a human being, as bile or phlegm. So a bilious or phlegmatic humour came to mean a certain character or state. This was the sense in which Jonson used "humour," in the play "Every Man out of his Humour...
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...character, strike an average between what his enemies say of him, and what those who are neither friendly nor hostile say. But before we go any farther, it is just as well to reveal to the reader who we are, and why, not being an editor, we write the plural pronoun. We are an association of two; and our number is not limited in order that we may all have offices. But, on the other hand, we do not limit our association to one, and so get a subsidy from the corporation and build a palace fit for a King...