On 12/7/05, Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote: > > > On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Davdi Silverrock wrote: > > > "Three men, one woman, all of them Orca ..." > > Hmm: "Three men, one woman, all of them American". > That's English, isn't it? Thinking about it, I think the sentence is a perfect example of where it could go either way as either the singular adjective or plural form, for pretty much any ethnicity or nationality. Although some ethnicities/nationalities would use the "-ish" suffix for the singular form. Language is just daft, sometimes.