Grammatical number

I will take that as a slight win for me then in one element there.

Singular or plural?

Well, interestingly, we tend to use daylight savings in Australia, but Probably most correct is daylight saving without the S.

Okay, good.

Singular, righto, good.

That's two wins for me.

Now we'll go downhill from here.

That makes sense.

Singular gets the singular verb.

Plural gets the plural verb.

I think I can remember that pattern.

With even, and recognize that even is singular form, one stone, one, right? Him and not with his clothing.

That means you take his clothing off before his stoning, right? You stone him, him alone, without a cover.

Even, and when he says even, Singular form, that if he died with the first stone that he threw, you don't have to start throwing more stones on him.

Now, wait, wait for it.

And it's needed.

It's one of my favorites.

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name, is it name or names? Singular, name.

In the name of what? The Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

One name, three persons.

Thus treating of chorea he writes as follows: quote, "In Germany it was said for two centuries to have been epidemic; and the patients probably many of them maniacs were wont to join in frantic dances And as late as 1673 they went in procession to the church of some favorite saint, of whom St John, St Guy, and St Vitus were the most reputed." End quote.

Now the chorea of modern nosologists was never said to have been epidemic That which was epidemic was clearly a different disease altogether Sir Thomas Watson has appended to his lecture on chorea a short statement regarding the original disease Which proves that he recognizes its true character The name he justly remarks quote Was applied and much more suitably To another set of symptoms Of a most singular kind Concerning the real occurrence of which We might well be skeptical If we had not the authentic narratives Of many instances of such disorder From different persons of credit As well in this country as in others An affection characterized By movements which cannot Be called spasmodic But are rather owing to the irresistible propensity to muscular action Increased sometimes To a sort of mania By the force of imitation Or by the sound of music It is the volition In this case that is morbid or perverseEnd quoteTo increase the confusion Some authors have classed with choriomania Many anomalous forms of nervous manifestationSome of which Are evidently the resultOf organic diseaseof the nervous centersSuch are the casesRecorded by SagarAnd othersOf patients who could onlyGo forwardsOr backwardsOr theseSingular diseasesDescribed asRotatioandMalleatioChoreomaniaIs undoubtedlyDistinct fromSpasmodic choreaOn the one handAnd from these Singular formsof perverted motionon the otherThe various epidemicsHave been admirably describedby HeckerTo whose workThose desirousOf informationMay referAnd in whichthe curious will find references toand quotations fromthe original authorities on the subjectsome very interestinginformationis also to be foundin Hazer'shistory of Epidemic Diseaseschoreo maniamay be defined asa psychophysicaldiseasein whichthe willintellectual facultiesand moral feelingsare allmore or lesspervertedwith anirresistibleimpulse tomotionand aninsane loveof musicoftensporadicbut with atendency incertaincircumstancesto becomeepidemicthe firstappearance ofthe dancingmania onrecordoccurredat Colbiginthee year ten twentyoneunfortunatelywe can notrely uponthe accuracyofthe accountsof itthat have comedown tousasthey areundoubtedlymixedup withthe fabulousthesimple factthatsuchan eventoccurredcan alonebe acceptedashistoricalbeyondthis thereis nocertaintythe traditionisthat adozen ofcountrypeoplehavingbeen seizedwith thisdiseaseduringthe timeofdivine servicethe priestRupprechtcursedthem todanceand howlfortwelve monthsfor havinginterruptedtheworshipand thatthis cursewasonly removedby the prayersand intercessionoftwo bishopsthat fourof thetwelvediedand that theremaining eightcontinuedtosufferfrom tremblings ofthe limbsduringtherest oftheir livesthenagain inthe yeartwelveseventyeighttwo hundredpersonswere seizingwith it atUtrechtand whiledancing onthe Mosellebridgethestructuregave wayandmany ofthem perishedBut perhaps the first remarkable outbreak occurred in the year thirteen seventy-four under the name of Saint John's Dance because it began on Saint John's Day, which was observed in the earlier centuries in the most outrageous manner with mirth, debauchery, and dancing.

It seems to be this epidemic which is referred to by Frank and strangely enough supposed by him to have been owing to ergotism.

At Isla Chapelle says Hecker quote assemblages of men and women were seen who had come out of Germany and who were united by one common delusion They formed circles Hand in hand And appearing to have lost All control over their senses Continued to dance Regardless of the bystanders For hours together In wild delirium Until at lengthThey fellto the ground Ina state ofexhaustionThey then complainedOf extreme oppressionAnd groanedAs if in the agoniesOf deathUntil theyWere swathedIn clothsBound tightlyAround theirWaistsUponwhich theyAgainrecoveredEndquote The swathingWhich wasRenderedMore effectiveBy the aidOf a turnstickWas resorted toonaccount oftympaniWhileDancingthey weresaid tohave BeenInsensibleto ExternalImpressionsBut hauntedBy ReligiousVisionsand CapricesOf VariousKindsThe attacksOften CommencedWith ConvulsionsDifficultyOf BreathingAnd MentalDepressionBeakedShoesVery MuchExcitedTheresentmentOfThe DancersIn LiegeThe manufactureOf TheseFashionableArticlesWas forbiddenBy lawRed colorsSeemed tohaveBeen MoreOffensiveThe influenceOf whichHeckerSuggest might lead us to imagine an extraordinary accordance between this spasmodic malady and the condition of infuriated animals.