Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site loral.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!sun!qubix!ios!oliveb!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!sdcc6!loral!simard From: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Chris"s Major Conniption Message-ID: <563@loral.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Oct-84 11:31:29 EDT Article-I.D.: loral.563 Posted: Tue Oct 16 11:31:29 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Oct-84 06:17:23 EDT References:<349@wxlvax.UUCP> Reply-To: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard) Organization: Loral Instrumentation, San Diego, CA Lines: 24 Summary: In article <349@wxlvax.UUCP> rlw@wxlvax.UUCP (Richard L. Wexelblat) writes: > >Ken Purlow says: > And "IC's" is OK, too. > >Won't someone do something about such terrible grammatical lapses? >It obviously should be: > And "IC's" are OK, too. >--Dick Wexelblat That depends on whether the writer was saying the integrated circuits ARE ok, or that the *construction* "IC's" is ok. The presence of the quotes suggests the latter, in which case Ken Perlow is correct with the singular verb. -- [ I am not a stranger, but a friend you haven't met yet ] Ray Simard Loral Instrumentation, San Diego {ucbvax, ittvax!dcdwest}!sdcsvax!sdcc6!loral!simard