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From: john@cisden.UUCP (John Woolley)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: "United States"
Message-ID: <383@cisden.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Jan-86 17:44:09 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  7 17:44:09 1986
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Keywords: United States
Summary: When did they become singular?

Does anyone have an eighteenth- or nineteenth-century quotation using
the phrase "the United States" as a singular noun?  It always used to
be plural, but now it's nearly always singular.  When did it change?
-- 
				Peace and Good!,
				      Fr. John Woolley
"The heart has its reasons that the mind does not know." -- Blaise Pascal