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[SoothingDave]

Why pick on the Pole? You've had two native speakers correct your error.

I have a hard time seeing how your contributions here are useful.

Citing Google hits as proof of proper English is feeble.

[birdeen's call]

Citing Google hits as proof of proper English is feeble.

Especially when there are so few hits.

[GUS22]

Why pick on the Pole? You've had two native speakers correct your error.

I have a hard time seeing how your contributions here are useful.

Citing Google hits as proof of proper English is feeble.

Have I ? - there was one native speaker who corrected my "error" and I presented an alternative view as to why it was not an error to which there has been no reply.
If you disagree then you are welcome to refute my arguments with logic and reason - simply saying that I have made an error does not make it true.
Actually google provides a huge resource for learning what types of phrases and language is in common usage and ultimately it is common usage that defines a language.
I am picking on the Pole because he had the gall to try and correct my English and to be honest I am sick of non native speakers believing they understand a language better than a native speaker because of what somebody somewhere wrote in a textbook.

[GUS22]

Especially when there are so few hits.

65,000 is plenty.
So are you actually going to answer the post I made to you ?

[5jj]

Really . Thankyou once again for correcting my English my Polish friend. Really you are absolutely unbelievable - so perhaps you have done a degree in English and you actually have the gall to tell a native speaker they are speaking incorrectly. Your arrogance knows no bounds.

Well it does rather seem that BC knows more about what is and is not correct English than you do.

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[GUS22]

Do you pay any attention to dictionaries?

Either | Define Either at Dictionary.com



Either is fine. You shouldn't confuse the students here with your ignorance.

No you shouldn't restrict your use of English to dictionaries and textbooks - this mechanistic approach to English can be disingenuous and I believe is not only much more misleading for students but is actually having a negative and restrictive effect on the English language..
Again take the example of further and farther which now have different definitions in different dictionaries and textbooks and are viewed as interchangeable in others.

[GUS22]

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If you don't actually have a reasoned argument to the points I have made with regard to the English language then your comment is superfluous.

[5jj]

If you don't actually have a reasoned argument to the points I have made with regard to the English language then your comment is superfluous.

Either word (singular) is fine.
Both words (plural) are fine.

I know this. BC knows this. You apparently don't.

Either are fine is acceptable only of the choice involves plural nouns:

Do you want carrots or peas with your steak? E,,,,,Either are fine.

As you do not appear to want us to rely on dictionaries or grammars, then I see little point in presenting reasoned argument. The fact that all the native speakers I know agree that Either (word) are fine is incorrect should be good enough.

Incidentally, no teacher I know, native speaker or Pole, would write, as you did, "Actually google provides a huge resource for learning what types of phrases and language is in common usage ...". For us, plural nouns normally require a plural form of the verb.

[Barb_D]

I am locking this thread.

Take your heat and fire elsewhere.

GUS, all of us has made mistakes and had them pointed out by others. I've made my share.

BC was not showing "gall" and being arrogant. BC was doing what I hope any user of this forum would do if I made a mistake.