VERY “UNCOMMON” NOUN.
It was a coloured school teacher in America who, descanting upon nouns common and proper, made the ex-ception:--‘‘The word ‘pants' aht an uncommon noun, because pants am singular at tlie top and plural at the bottom.”
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White Ribbon, Volume 33, Issue 381, 18 April 1927, Page 17
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39VERY “UNCOMMON” NOUN. White Ribbon, Volume 33, Issue 381, 18 April 1927, Page 17
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