LEND ME YOUR EAR: SEE-SAWING WITH COLLECTIVE TERMS

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Wednesday, March 2, 1994

Mistakes in collective nouns and pronouns provide endless fodder for word-watchers. Even the most knowledgeable take wrong turns off and on. In a recent broadcast about America's non-reading public, a long-time announcer reported that "Almost every town in the country have lost at least one book store." Every town have?

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