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Old 27-Nov-2005, 11:16
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Default Plural Form

What is the plural form of:

source of error

sources of errors............or..............sources of error

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Default Re: Plural Form

It depends; you could have multiple sources of a single error, one source of multiple errors or mutiple sources of multiple errors, so all combinations are possible, IMO.
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