Killer bunnies in medieval manuscripts. The strange rules of 'dozen.'
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The Word Difficult
Miss Grammar Girl answers a listener's question about the word dozen. Carl Webster: Why does two pounds of ground beef sound okay, but a dozen of eggs sound so odd? On the one hand, why should it be surprising that people say adozen of eggs? After all, if the word dozen were plural, we could say dozens of eggs and it would sound just fine.
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