From: Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: news item for app-backup/bacula
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:54:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1325346890.11872.11.camel@rook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111231145603.GA7880@linux1>
On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 08:56 -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 10:11:58AM +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
> > On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:56:33 +0100
> > Thomas Beierlein <tomjbe@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >
> > > The 5.2.x release series of Bacula uses a new database catalog format.
> > ^^^ use (singular)
>
> No, "uses" is correct here.
Right. The word "series" has the same form in both singular and plural;
in this case, it refers to a single, well-defined group of releases, so
using it as singular is correct.
See http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/series#English and
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=942433
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-31 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-30 8:56 [gentoo-dev] rfc: news item for app-backup/bacula Thomas Beierlein
2011-12-30 9:11 ` Michał Górny
2011-12-30 9:43 ` Thomas Beierlein
2011-12-30 10:44 ` Michał Górny
2011-12-30 11:09 ` Thomas Beierlein
2011-12-30 17:02 ` [gentoo-dev] " Jonathan Callen
2011-12-31 10:51 ` Thomas Beierlein
2011-12-31 14:56 ` [gentoo-dev] " William Hubbs
2011-12-31 15:54 ` Alexandre Rostovtsev [this message]
2012-01-01 19:54 ` Thomas Beierlein
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