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The Etymology and Syntax of the English Language Explained and Illustrated

Note 143 — Chapter II · CRITICAL REMARKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

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In French the article and the adjectives admitting a plural termination, the expression “les uns et les autres” joined to a plural verb is in perfect consistence with analogy. So also, in Latin, are utrique and alteri, referring to a plurality. But unus was never in this sense used as a plural.

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