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From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 14:12

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J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote:

> There was no claim that ther was "Office for all operating systems".
> 
> The claim was "all sorts of operating systems".  If you are not a

	Even that's a bit thin - Windows, MacOS-X and Android. There are
quite a few other sorts of operating systems - the mainstream unixish
families (Linux/BSD/Solaris) for starters also Z-OS, RISCOS, Plan-9, AROS
and many more.

> native speaker of English you might believe that the "sorts of" is
> redundant but in fact this is a well known expression that simplifies
> to "many", not "all".

	However in this case "a few" would be more correct.

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