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9This is a truncation error. If it was 1.0 times it would be grammatical. :) – Alan Munn Mar 2 '13 at 13:49
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4Since you speak about it, I vote for "once". – yo' Mar 3 '13 at 0:53
Pluralizations is hard, and fix are tricky; this has been discussed many times before. Intriguingly, there may be some better options for this coming up in the medim-term future, depending on how some internal changes pan out. But at the current time this is by-design.
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@Werner: look at programmers.stackexchange.com/a/98364 for an example of the issue: if you want internationalisation, plurals don't correspond in different languages cleanly. – Charles Stewart Mar 5 '13 at 8:26
