On 2018-05-16, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Tue, 15 May 2018 22:21:15 +0200, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > >> On 2018-05-15 00:52:42 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > [...] >>> By 1991 there had already been *decades* of experience with C >> >> About one and a half decades. > > That would still be plural decades.
So would zero. ;) The only plural in English implies is that the quantity is not 1. It does _not_ imply the quantity is greater than 1. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! ! Now I understand at advanced MICROBIOLOGY and gmail.com th' new TAX REFORM laws!! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list