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...last panel ended, Applbaum found evidence that the center still has its work cut out for it. “Twenty years isn’t quite enough,” he said. “We haven’t even figured out whether ethics is singular or plural.” —Staff writer Clifford M. Marks can be reached at cmarks@fas.harvard.edu...
Sticking to his schtick of linguistic analysis, Pinker derided hamantashen for being an irregular plural. Using the Wug Test—a common linguistic experiment—Pinker showed that “latke” to “latkes” is a progression of a regular plural form and therefore “part of our innate universal grammar” while “hamantashen” belongs to a scanty contingency of irregular plurals in English that...
...made me believe that designers like Kors emerged from some “Brave New World”-esque spawning place, where they were genetically engineered to live off lettuce and cigarettes and react violently to the use of the word “pant” in its plural form. Yet seeing Joan Kors standing right next to her son seemed like irrefutable proof of the fact that such creatures are, indeed, of woman born—until, that is, the extreme resemblance in looks and dress between the two led me to entertain a new theory of reproduction...
...never done. Even though the church has not allowed members to have multiple wives since 1890, that's not how it comes across on TV, in books or even in the courts. The popular HBO series Big Love shows a Utah family trying to "live the principle" of plural marriage; at the end of every episode, the network's defensive disclaimer informs the audience that the Mormon church, in fact, rejects polygamy. Similarly, the nonfiction best seller Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer chronicles shocking murders within a Mormon splinter group, though it was probably lost on many...
Sprawled along Memorial Stadium’s side streets were dozens of RVs, each equipped with televisions (plural) broadcasting every nationally televised football game. Ohiri dwellers often don’t even know the score of the Harvard-Yale game, much less the play-by-play of the early SEC game...