The more you know
A for-and-against piece (Topless – or not?, 23 July, page 10, G2) mentioned the French tradition of going topless. Taking a light-hearted stab at Latin, it went on to voice the suspicion that this "cultural more" conveniently allowed French practitioners to look sophisticated and simultaneously acquire an all-over tan. A reader notes that the nominative singular of mores (custom/habits) is actually mos – though it would never be used in this context: "I’m not sure what the solution is for [the sentence in question], but it’s certainly not a matter of the more the merrier." Link
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