Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxn!gadfly From: gadfly@ihuxn.UUCP (Gadfly) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Is English decaying rapidly? Message-ID: <1245@ihuxn.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 09:45:24 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxn.1245 Posted: Tue Nov 5 09:45:24 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 04:24:30 EST References: <1427@cae780.UUCP> <162@opus.UUCP> <290@ihu1n.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 15 -- Another oft-mangled word is "kudos". Most folks think, because it ends in "s" I guess, that it's the plural of "kudo". Actually, the singular and plural look the same, but to use "kudos" in the plural is to say "glories be (to whomever)". English does let you say that. Alas, it doesn't let you mean anything by it. A kudos to all readers who use it correctly. -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 05 Nov 85 [15 Brumaire An CXCIV] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7753 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!iwsl8!ken *** ***