Re: typo?

From: Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 09:29:10 +0000
Subject: Re: typo?
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fixed thanks didou Dave wrote:
On Tuesday, February 10, 2004, 4:00:51 AM, Gabor wrote:
I could be wrong (it's early in the morning now...), but, in /mirror.php, it says: Local visitor statistics is available. shouldn't that "is" be "are"? or am I confused because statistics is actually a singular form and from some reason I interpret it as plural...
I am not sure that statistics is to be considered plural. But I am not a language expert. I don't think that the word 'statistic' is used...
Goba
From what I understand, statistics can be singular or plural. It's singular when you're referring to the actual science, and plural when you're referring to the statistics themselves. So it probably should be "are available". Dave


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