Re: [ARSCLIST] Archive/Archives

[Steven Smolian <smolians@xxxxxxxxx>]

News to me, and I worked on it.  This seems a usage by the editor.

Steve Smolian

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From: "Mike Richter" <mrichter@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 5:56 AM
Subject: [ARSCLIST] Archive/Archives


> The report "Copyright Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation ..." uses 
> the word 'archives' as a singular, typically in a phrase such as
>   a libary or an archives ...
> That's a construction new to me and not reflected in the OED. It seems 
> unlikely to be a typographic error, so can someone explain the distinction 
> between 'archive' (singular) and 'archives' (singular)?
>
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