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<br>There are 4 messages totalling 186 lines in this issue.
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<br>Topics of the day:
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<br>  1. e-mail/paper mail (2)
<br>  2. plural's - a new development?
<br>  3. Uncompromise & other compromises
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<br>Date:    Sun, 21 Jun 1998 13:41:18 -0500
<br>From:    "Donald M. Lance" <engdl[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SHOWME.MISSOURI.EDU>
<br>Subject: Re: e-mail/paper mail
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<br>>On Wed, 17 Jun 1998 12:08:30 -0400 Bob Haas <rahaas[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]HAMLET.UNCG.EDU>
<br>>wrote:
<br>...     ...
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<br>Later that day, Peter McGraw responded:
<br>>I'd say "e-mail" is either singular or collective, but not plural.  It
<br>>seems perfectly natural to say, "He sent me three e-mails yesterday."
<br>>
<br>>BTW, there was a discussion awhile (a couple of years?) ago on this
<br>>list prompted, as I remember, by a New York Times solicitation of
<br>>opinion as to the grammar of the singular of the term.  The question,
<br>>as I recall, boiled down to, "Does one say 'AN e-mail'?"  I was one who
<br>>piped up and said that seemed unnatural to me and that I would tend
<br>>to say "an e-mail MESSAGE."  I'm sure others said the same, though I
<br>>don't remember how many did or how many found "an e-mail" acceptable.
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<br>I participated in that discussion, with the same kind of comment as
<br>Peter's.  Now I use 'e-mail' as a count noun to refer to e-mail messages or
<br>as a noncount ("mass") noun to refer to the phenomenon.
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<br>DMLance
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