Is hoard of bugs to be treated as singular or plural?
...and what we mean by that is that a hoard of bugs were squashed relentlessly in this release
...and what we mean by that is that a hoard of bugs was squashed relentlessly in this release
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Andrew Leach
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Hoard or horde? Or -- easier to deal with -- hordes of bugs. – Andrew Leach Apr 01 '15 at 16:11
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1I would say the article "a" is a great giveaway for the plurality of the subject. – Nick2253 Apr 01 '15 at 16:13
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2A valuable collection of lepidoptera or coleoptera might qualify as a hoard of bugs, but OP's sample sentence suggests the bugs in question are faulty software code, which presumably no one treasures, so horde. – Brian Donovan Apr 01 '15 at 16:41
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I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because April Fools. – tchrist Apr 01 '15 at 21:32