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Subject:RE: Specimen observed in the wild From:"Leonard C. Porrello" <Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- SoleraTec -dot- com> To:<cewinch -at- aep -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:43:59 -0800
I think that was Peter's point.
Leonard
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Subject: Re: Specimen observed in the wild
Merriam Webster (www.m-w.com) has it opposite: "criterion" singular and
"criteria" plural. Hmm....
Connie Winch
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American Electric Power
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Re: Specimen observed in the wild
Voitch!
What I've noticed is the people who have finally figured out the plural
of criteria. If you guess that they establish one criteria but two
criterion, you're right!
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