Sunday, January 20, 2013

The next time I'm tempted to correct someone who says "Revelations" instead of "Revelation,"...

. . . I'll remember that John Henry Newman was among the many who used the plural.  Cf.

     Oxford English dictionary, sv revelation, n., 2.c.i-ii, "In plural in sense 2a, now regarded as informal and by some as incorrect," from c. 1400 and following.

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