A Troop of One
Posted by Neal on April 27, 2004
This was the headline on the front page of the Columbus Dispatch today:
Blast kills 2 U.S. troops.
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A Troop of One « Ariyurika's Blog said
[...] quite a bit of attention. In April 2004, I myself blogged about a headline mentioning “two troops,” and a year later, Geoff Pullum wrote on Language Log about hearing “two troops” [...]
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