Subj : A question about tenses
To   : mark lewis
From : Ardith Hinton
Date : Mon May 25 2020 22:42:08

Hi, Mark!  Recently you wrote in a message to Alexander Koryagin:

 AK>  As for the absence of "a" before "vegetarian" I don't know.

 ml>  remember, a vegetarian is vegetarian... it is one of those
 ml>  words that is both a noun and an adjective...


            Yes, and WRT this word I think popular usage may have changed over the years.  When I was a kid one of my older relatives married a vegetarian... or so I was informed at the time.  But nowadays such people generally identify themselves as "vegetarian", without the article....  :-)




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