David Green

David Green (Books) is the imprint under which I published booklets of my own poems. The original allocation of ISBN numbers is used up now, though. The 'Collected Poems' are now available as a pdf. The website is now what it has become, often more about music than books and not so often about poems. It will be about whatever suggests itself.

Wednesday, 20 March 2013

Singular and plurality, George

In today's budget speech, George Osborne announced that he was cutting the duty on beer 'by one pence'.

Oh, no, you're not, you Bullingdon oik.

'Pence' is the plural which you would use if there were more than one. When there is only one, you use the singular, which is 'penny'.

It's a shame your very expensive education didn't make sure you left university aware of that.