I have been editing a lot of romance novels lately and there seems to be one grammatical mistake that every one of the writers has made. It concerns the part of the female anatomy that I call "breasts." This is an example of what I regularly find:
He ran his hands over her breast, cupping each one. But both her breast did not respond like he wanted.
Why is it that something as simple as this is being overlooked in writing, and not just by one author, but by at least eleven? Yes, eleven different authors, fourteen different books, and they all made the same mistake, over and over again. No exceptions.
I asked one of our authors the other night about it and she said agreed with me that it could be because some big-wig romance author did it once, everyone read her, and now everyone makes the same mistake. Is it a sub-culture mindset that accepted the mistake as fact and never corrected itself? I don't know, but it is sure funny. It wasn't funny the first ten times, of course, but it is now.
But let me be clear on this simple rule: one is a "breast" and two are "breasts."
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