In a single short editorial (“End of One Scourge”, about the elimination of the cattle disease rinderpest) in the NYT yesterday, two anomalous plurals (boldfaced below): (1) Rinderpest spreads rapidly and kills nearly every animals it infects. (2) [Rinderpest and smallpox] share a similar history, since both diseases were among the first to be treated … Continue reading Determiner-head selection