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Old 04-25-2013, 10:10 AM   #5125
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From E.B. White's Elements of Style, quoting Mencken (I think)

"Are there any news?"
"Not a new."

Mencken felt that since news had an S at the end it must be plural. The reporter he asked ran with it.
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