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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
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Which is correct?

Those people are the exception that proves the rule/Those people are the exceptions that prove the rule?
  

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Anonymous Those people are the exception that proves the rule. I would use this one. The idiom has the singular "exception".

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous Those people are the exception that proves the rule.
  • I would use this one.
  • The idiom has the singular "exception".
  • I'd stick with that.
  • CJ
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AnonymousThose people are the exception that proves the rule.
I would use this one. The idiom has the singular "exception". I'd stick with that.

CJ
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