Re: rsync

[Randy Kramer <rhkramer@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 04 March 2012 06:53:37 am Chris Bannister wrote:
> > Thank you
> > (I read "The Grammar of English Grammars" by Goold Brown. finished 35
> > of 11294 in one month. Hope can finish one day).
>
> Just be aware, the Americans have their own version of English.

I would have said just the opposite--the English have their own version of 
English.  ;-)  Oh, but I guess they did get there first. ;-)  

And then I see the .nz on your address, I know the Australians have their own 
version of English, I'll bet the New Zealanders do, also.

> "The Grammar of English Grammars" is the wrong book to be reading,
> i.e., there is no such word as "Grammars"

Then what is the plural of grammar?  There certainly seems to be a need / use 
for the plural--I've used "grammars" since around 1968 (and maybe earlier) 
when we talked about grammars for computer languages in class (as in "context 
free grammars").

I tried looking at Merriam Webster, and didn't see "grammars" (nor a plural) 
specifically listed--I don't know if that means there is no plural or that, 
since nothing different is specified, the standard addition of "s" does the 
job?  (Note, I can see only the abridged version of the Merriam Webster 
dictionary.)

Not that I consider Wikipedia (the encyclopedia) an authority on language 
usage, but they use "grammars" in their article on grammar.

Wiktionary lists grammars: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grammars

Randy Kramer