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- From: jns@elea.umd.edu (J. N. Shaumeyer)
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- Subject: numbers
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- Date: 25 Dec 92 00:13:28 GMT
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- Piglet [shameless grammar snob]
- (eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com) wrote:
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- > "Media" is a collective noun, which may be referenced in the
- > singular _or_ the plural, depending on context...
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- Would that be:
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- "Give the medium her due"; or,
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- "Give the medium their due"; or,
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- "Give the media their due"; or,
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- "Give the media his due"?
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- [I'm not quite sure about the context....]
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- --jns
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