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From: jeffd@ficc.ferranti.com (Jeff Daiell)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Acronyms.  Is is `1 MIP' or `1 MIPS'?
Summary: where I live
Message-ID: <KNG49AE@xds8.ferranti.com>
Date: 5 Jul 90 19:35:40 GMT
References: <6033@helios.TAMU.EDU> <111360@linus.mitre.org> <305@spam.ua.oz> <HARKCOM.90Jul5124021@potato.pa.Yokogawa.CO.JP>
Organization: Karen Valentino Fan Club [but      opinions my own]
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In article <HARKCOM.90Jul5124021@potato.pa.Yokogawa.CO.JP>, harkcom@potato.pa.Yokogawa.CO.JP (Alton Harkcom) writes:
> In article <-PE4L9E@xds8.ferranti.com>
> 	jeffd@ficc.ferranti.com (Jeff Daiell) writes:
> 
>  =} No.  One should always use 'are' for the United States or United States
>  =} of America.  If one insists on using a singular, the noun should be
>  =} The Union.
> 
>    Is the United States of America where you live? Is the United States of
> America where you are currently living? Are the above two sentences
> grammatically correct? 

I live in Texas, one of the United States of America, so I live in The Union
as well.  At least until re-secession.  {|8^)]


Jeff


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