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The more usual form of singularizing appears when we are told that someone is no longer in the good grace of someone else; the ground for divorce was...; the supervisor or custodian (i.e., janitor] of a school building was also responsible for the upkeep of its ground ; and one reporter, evidently mightily disturbed by the prevalent pluralism, even tried to make a singular noun still more so by lopping off its final s : a specie of mammal (which one might think is right on the money).