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Angliholic Posted 18 years ago
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mix of people/s

0The mix of sports I saw in the park also made me think of Melbourne's mix of people/peoples.02br
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00Hard to say-- how various are they?02br
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0Thanks, Mister.02br
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00What do you mean by "How various are they?"02br
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00I think it should be the plural "peoples" because there are more than at least one people, but the original uses the singular "people." Could you shed some light?0-
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0If you mean a mix of different kinds of people in the sense of tall people, short people, smart people, stupid people, happy people, sad people, and so on, you need people.02br
00If you mean a mix of different peoples in the sense of ethnicities and/or cultures (the Chinese people, the Japanese people, the African people, and so on), you might want to use peoples.02br

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0Thanks, Jim.02br
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00I'm still confused. In my mind, there are at least two different kinds of people mixing there, whites and aboriginals, let alone Asians and those from other cultures. 0-
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