Boycott and trade

[nq:1]Question 2: Is 'trade' itself a plural form? I found the next sentence in a book. There is no 's' after 'trade': "Migrations, conquests, and trade have brought waves of new words into the (English) vocabulary."[/nq]
No, in this sense "trade" it's a mass noun, also called an uncountable noun. Mass nouns almost never appear as plurals. You might say that you can get around by "trains, buse

[nq:1]Question 1: Is there a lot of people in Ireland have the last name 'Boycott'?[/nq]
Probably not; the Charles Boycott whose name became a word in the English language was the son of an English clergyman.

Fran

[nq:2]Question 1: Is there a lot of people in Ireland have the last name 'Boycott'?[/nq]
[nq:1]Probably not; the Charles Boycott whose name became a word in the English language was the son of an English clergyman.[/nq]
Wasn't everybody in those days?

Mickwick

[nq:1]Question 1: Is there a lot of people in Ireland have the last name 'Boycott'?[/nq]
Capt Charles Cunningham Boycott (1832-97) was a retired British Army officer that was employed by Lord Erne to manage Erne's estates in County Mayo, Ireland. Boycott left Ireland in 1896 and returned to England. He was not missed by the Irish.
This doesn't specifically answer your question, but you'd b

[nq:2]Probably not; the Charles Boycott whose name became a word in the English language was the son of an English clergyman.[/nq]
[nq:1]Wasn't everybody in those days?[/nq]
Many were daughters, I believe.
Has anyone told Andrew Smyth that Boycott wasn't Irish?

Bob Lieblich
Also not Irish

[nq:2]Probably not; the Charles Boycott whose name became a word in the English language was the son of an English clergyman.[/nq]
[nq:1]Wasn't everybody in those days?[/nq]
I thought they were the niece of a bishop. No, wait, that was just in the South of England.

Jerry Friedman

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[nq:1]Question 2: Is 'trade' itself a plural form? I found the next sentence in a book. There is no 's' after 'trade': "Migrations, conquests, and trade have brought waves of new words into the (English) vocabulary."[/nq]
If you're asking why the verb is plural, there are two reasons. One is the plural number of "migrations" and "conquests", and the other is the existence of three noun

[nq:2]Question 1: Is there a lot of people in Ireland have the last name 'Boycott'?[/nq]
[nq:1]Probably not; the Charles Boycott whose name became a word in the English language was the son of an English clergyman. Fran[/nq]
Now, as then, English people make Ireland their home. But a perfunctory search of the eircom phonebook suggests that any Boycotts presently residing have wisely gone e

[nq:1]Capt Charles Cunningham Boycott (1832-97) was a retired British Army officer that was employed by Lord Erne to manage Erne's estates in County Mayo, Ireland. Boycott left Ireland in 1896 and returned to England. He was not missed by the Irish.[/nq]
You think he was bad? You should have seen General Robert Riggs Embargo.

[nq:2]Capt Charles Cunningham Boycott (1832-97) was a retired British Army ... returned to England. He was not missed by the Irish.[/nq]
[nq:1]You think he was bad? You should have seen General Robert Riggs Embargo.[/nq]
Maj Curtis Isaac Allyn Sanction left quite a legacy.