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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
[Q1]Why isn't "in mass" correct also? [Q?2]It does make sense, even if its use was ill-informed?
[Q3]dtb- do you long for the olden days when only royalty could wirte?
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A1: Because "in mass" means during a religious ceremony. You could have said "in a mass" and that would have conveyed (correctly) the meaning that I think you intended.
A2: As written, this is an assertion, not a question; but if you're asking whether it makes sense, despite the misspelling, the answer is "yes" -- although I did stumble over it when I first read it. Furthermore, I don't agree that its use was ill-informed (if what you're trying to say is that an attempt at using the phrase "en masse" was somehow ill-informed).
A3. Do I ever. Sigh.
