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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: Troops #128188 05/04/2004 2:00 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,004 London, UK shanks old hand shanks old hand Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,004 London, UK Dunno, but it seems to me to be of a piece with using the word staff as a countable noun representing employess. I've seen, to my mind nonsense, sentences talking about "15 staffs" being in such and such a place when a bomb went off. More evidence of the Decline and Fall of the Western Empire? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Troops adeybug 05/04/2004 11:46 AM Re: Troops shanks 05/04/2004 2:00 PM Re: Troops Capfka 05/04/2004 8:41 PM Re: Troop: person or group? AnnaStrophic 05/04/2004 8:59 PM Re: Troop: person or group? jheem 05/05/2004 4:26 PM Re: Troop: person or group? RhubarbCommando 05/05/2004 6:52 PM Re: Troop: person or group? jheem 05/05/2004 8:23 PM Re: Troop: person or group? Capfka 05/05/2004 8:55 PM Re: Troop: person or group? wsieber 05/06/2004 10:58 AM Troop group musick 05/04/2004 9:58 PM Re: Troops Faldage 05/05/2004 10:13 AM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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