“Almost all the irregularities in the construction of any language have arisen from the ellipsis of some words which were originally inserted in the sentence and made it regular.”—Murray’s Grammar. The sentence should end with “and which made it regular.”
The one, the other
When the one and the other refer to things previously mentioned, the one applies to the first mentioned, and the other to the last mentioned.
“Homer was a genius, Virgil an artist: in the one we most admire the man; in the other, the work.”
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Number
Many persons of moderate education regard nouns that do not end with s or es as singular. Even the gifted pen of Addison once slipped so far as to betray him into using the word seraphim, in the singular.
Cherubim, Seraphim
The words cherub and seraph, are singular. Cherub, as applied to a little child, takes the English plural, cherubs. As applied to an order of angels, it takes the Hebrew plural, cherubim. The singular, seraph, has an English plural, seraphs, as well as the Hebrew plural, seraphim. The double plurals, cherubims and seraphims, although found in the King James version of the Bible, are regarded as faulty in modern writing, and should be avoided.
News
Although plural in form, the word news is singular in meaning; as, “The news from Europe this morning is quite interesting.”