More (not so) fun facts:
54% of American adults read below a 6th grade level.
21% read below a 5th grade level, which is considered functionally illiterate.
High immigration numbers don’t fully explain it either, as first gen immigrants only make up about 1/3 of those with low literacy.
Sometimes we do. A single race may be a people, while many races are different peoples. In this case I can see them meaning different outputs from different journalists, or maybe they mean each single article is an output.
Or people and peoples, where the first plural is placed in a larger mathematical set and treated as a nebulous, singular noun.
Language is really interesting
Someone once called me racist for using the term “peoples.” I tried explaining it to them, but of course they twisted my argument into a strawman and used it to reinforce their position.
They didn’t see my point, but I didn’t see there’s either. Maybe it was a literacy issue…