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Pedant: Blah Details or Blah Detail? It's a culture thingy. I was naming an object and wanted to be impeccably correct at every minute _detail_ I was writing into.
Sathyaish Chakravarthy
In UK English detail takes an 's' for the plural: a single detail, many details.
a cynic writes...
Its one of the results of using a verb as a noun.
Simon Lucy
Thanks, folks.
Sathyaish Chakravarthy
>>What's the correct one? More importantly, which one is wrong?
StrangeHumor
Yup! I am kinda, at client site. Limited time, limited attention to anything else outside the domain...
Sathyaish Chakravarthy
Detail isn't so much a simultaneously singular/plural noun, but rather a word with multiple meanings. But when used as a synonym for "item," it does take an s on the plural. (And I'm a US English speaker, btw).
Joe
Detail can be a count or uncount noun. So 'detail' can be singular or uncountable depending on context.
Stephen Jones
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