The title of this paper should by no means be interpreted as a recommendation diplomatically couched in the form of a question. As I write it, I am wondering whether or not we could achieve more clarity in our exchanges among linguists if we decided to judge on its own merits each one of the cases where we are used to operating, or tempted to operate, with the notion of subject, and if we tried to devise new and less ambiguous labelings for every specific complex of syntactic criteria. Yet, considering the difficulty of reaching agreement among all scholars concerned, would we not, thereby, increase the existing confusion rather than reduce it?

There are two arguments for postulating the existence of a rule which derives (some) plurals from conjoined singulars. This rule would convert (1a) to (1b).

(1) a. *The mani and the manj are different.

b. The meni,j are different.

The first argument derives from French agreement. Adjectives agree across the copula in number and gender with their subjects.

0. The Purpose of this short study is to show that phonetic rather than graphemic considerations predominate in scribal errors in Greek Biblical manuscripts and to suggest an explanation for this phenomenon.

1. In preparing my critical edition of the Greek Genesis, all available extant mss of Genesis prior to the 16th century were collated, the only exceptions being a 15th-century ms which was unavailable to the Göttingen Academy, and two other 15th-century mss which proved to be copies of mss already collated. The mss collated constituted 9 uncial texts dating from the 3rd to the 7th centuries and 98 minuscules dating from the 9th to the 15th centuries. Also collated were 32 papyri ranging from ca. 50 Bc (a tiny fragment containing only a few letters) to the 9th century. Three of these papyri are substantial, the so-called Berlin Genesis (late 3rd century) and the Chester Beatty Papyri IV and V (4th and late 3rd centuries respectively).

This report covers one service of Linguistics to the University of Toronto School of Graduate Studies. Since July 1968 the SGS has routinely tested the French and the German reading abilities called for in each of the PhD supervising departments from Aerospace through Zoology, relieving the language departments of onerous burdens. Each department has chosen its own pass/fail standard; choices are alterable, especially downward without notice, four times a year; departments find raising them more troublesome but do it by internal political process as often as they see fit, actually as often as twice in three years.