On Sunday 04 March 2012 06:53:37 am Chris Bannister wrote: > > Thank you > > (I read "The Grammar of English Grammars" by Goold Brown. finished 35 > > of 11294 in one month. Hope can finish one day). > > Just be aware, the Americans have their own version of English.
I would have said just the opposite--the English have their own version of English. ;-) Oh, but I guess they did get there first. ;-) And then I see the .nz on your address, I know the Australians have their own version of English, I'll bet the New Zealanders do, also. > "The Grammar of English Grammars" is the wrong book to be reading, > i.e., there is no such word as "Grammars" Then what is the plural of grammar? There certainly seems to be a need / use for the plural--I've used "grammars" since around 1968 (and maybe earlier) when we talked about grammars for computer languages in class (as in "context free grammars"). I tried looking at Merriam Webster, and didn't see "grammars" (nor a plural) specifically listed--I don't know if that means there is no plural or that, since nothing different is specified, the standard addition of "s" does the job? (Note, I can see only the abridged version of the Merriam Webster dictionary.) Not that I consider Wikipedia (the encyclopedia) an authority on language usage, but they use "grammars" in their article on grammar. Wiktionary lists grammars: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grammars Randy Kramer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201203040819.40388.rhkra...@gmail.com
