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old hand
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I would like to know if AWADers think this usage of 'training' as a plural noun is wrong, fine or perhaps just best avoided. It seems pretty common - is it acceptable in US English?
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Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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I've not seen this usage before, thank the FSM.
TEd
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Pooh-Bah
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Bell: I agree with Ted althoughb if you had undergone training by different agencies at different times, esp for different purposes, it would be ok to say you had undergone several trainings
dalehileman
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stranger
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Quote:
it would be ok to say you had undergone several trainings
I think an American English speaker would be more inclined to say "gone through several training sessions" or simply "gone through several sessions." Or classes, seminars, workshops. I've never seen trainings, plural noun, in print or heard it used.
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enthusiast
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For better or worses, trainings is (are?), coming into more freakuent use.
I, well Google, found:
"Trainings & Conferences, California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform
"Advanced Trainings World-Wide
Offering a variety of bodywork trainings
"Laban's addiction specific chemical dependency home study trainings
"Meditative Trainings
"Mindfulness Trainings..."
I wouldn't use the word,
or the word "bodywork" for that matter.
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stranger
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Ah well, we must remember that language is always evolving, and there's nothing we can do to stop it. I doubt I'll ever use the term, and hopefully it will fall out of vogue.
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Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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I've heard it used. I decline to use it. You knew that.
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Carpal Tunnel
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I've heard training as a count noun in US English. Doesn't bother me one way or another.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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