Date:    Sun, 21 Jun 1998 13:51:26 -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>Peter Richardson asks:
<br>>I take it, then, that the plural of "an e-mail" is "some e-mail" and not
<br>>"e-mails." If necessary, "two email messages," but not "two emails." Or
<br>>maybe "ease-mail?"
<br>
<br>Interesting point.  Not simple by any means:
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<br>I have some e-mail.
<br>
<br>I had 145 e-mails when I got back from my trip.
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<br>Some of the e-mails were ordinary, but two of them were SOME e-mails.  I
<br>couldn't stop laughing.
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<br>A few e-mails were downright silly.
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<br>Much (of my) e-mail is silly too.
<br>
<br>Many e-mails are silly.
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<br>*?Much e-mail is silly, but some e-mails are not.
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<br>*?Lots of e-mail is serious stuff, but some of them are a waste of time.
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<br>That particular e-mail.... (ambiguous)
<br>Those particular e-mails....
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<br>DMLance
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