Do linguistics still matter?
I've been scarce here for a while, due to moving (for a year, while the Quadrangle is reconstructed) and dealing with some overdue professional obligations. Time will continue to be tight for me, and it'll be a couple weeks before I have time for a Breakfast Experiment™ but I'll try to find time for a series of interesting short posts, starting with this one.
English nouns ending in -ics come in several morphosyntactic flavors, some of which act like plurals while others act like singulars.
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