And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Why is 'hair" both singular and plural? Why isn't this make titled Hairs".
In linguistics, a collective noun is a word referring to a collection of things taken as a whole. Most collective nouns in everyday speech are not specific to one kind of thing. For example, the collective noun "group" can be applied to people, or dogs, objects and hair.
When I was a kid my mom would comb my sisters' hair and she'd be screaming because of all the tangles. My ex wife would holler if I accidentally pulled her hair in an embrace. It ain't all rosy.
Yes.
ReplyDeleteWhy is 'hair" both singular and plural? Why isn't this make titled Hairs".
ReplyDeleteIn linguistics, a collective noun is a word referring to a collection of things taken as a whole. Most collective nouns in everyday speech are not specific to one kind of thing. For example, the collective noun "group" can be applied to people, or dogs, objects and hair.
So that's why.
When I was a kid my mom would comb my sisters' hair and she'd be screaming because of all the tangles. My ex wife would holler if I accidentally pulled her hair in an embrace. It ain't all rosy.
ReplyDeleteBut when it is tangle free, nothing like it.
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