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At 04:39 PM 6/16/2008, Paul E. Doniger wrote:
>And yet, all through elementary school, we were hammered with
>reminders that "two plus two are (not is) four."
DD: I know the catechism well, but I know it in the singular verb. It
is drilled into my mind, but with the singular "is". Question; What
is three plus nine? Response; Three plus nine is twelve. Of course I
learned it in 1936. Probably a shift of grammatical agreement over time.
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