Re: ngettext() not enough?

[Andreas Schwab]

"John.Cowan" <address@hidden> writes:

> I consider "The temperature rose by 1.0 degrees" to violate
> the Sprachgefuehl of English speakers; "1.0 degree" outnumbers "1.0 degrees"
> by 2.4 to 1 on Google, though some of these hits are spurious.

IMHO (I'm not a native speaker) "1.0 degrees" is correct if you pronounce
it like "one point zero degrees", just like you would say "zero degrees",
not "zero degree".

Andreas.

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