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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
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Reply-To: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard)
Organization: Loral Instrumentation, San Diego, CA
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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
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