On Tue, 7 Jun 2022 19:53:44 -0700, Tom Brennan wrote: >I heard that one on a radio advertisement the other day, something like, >"All your payroll needs in a single software." >Hurts my ears :) > >https://www.paycom.com/learn-more/why-paycom/ > They do that purposely: <https://www.technologyreview.com/2007/08/21/98765/how-ads-affect-our-memory/>.
>On 6/7/2022 3:17 PM, Gord Tomlin wrote: > >> A related pet peeve: "a software". Nobody but nobody says "a hardware". > "Hardware" and "software" are collective nouns. A commentator once wondered, "If '1000 troops' means 1000 soldiers, is one soldier a 'troop'?" My pet peeves have long included "media is" and "data is". And, more recently, by professionals who should know better, "bacteria is". -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
