Re: Materials continuing to make history ... ?!?

At 11:58:26 on Tue, 9 May 2006, Charles Lindsey <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in <IyzyLE.EJt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

If you are talking about the stuff that statues are made from, then it is
"marble", in the singular. If you were talking about a collection of
statues made from marble, then they would be "marbles" in the plural (as
in the "Elgin marbles" now in the British Museum).

Good Lord, Charles, how long have you been lurking here?
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