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From: ed@unisoft.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: person
Message-ID: <156@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 9-Oct-83 20:33:04 EDT
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The only reason I can guess that "persons" is becoming the plural instead
of pepole, is that in much legalese it is used, presumably to distinguish
it from the legitimate use of people as a singular (actually, it's
collective, not singular, but it acts singular and can be pluralized
to peoples).

Ed Gould
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