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Thread #107473 Message #2228916
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
05-Jan-08 - 07:22 AM
Thread Name: Most inane couplet
Subject: RE: Most inane couplet
"Both Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ..."
Not ungrammatical or illogical when indicating two or more - merely "archaic, used only in old-fashioned (or religious or legal) speech or writing" (Concise Oxford Dictionary).
It's rather hard to see why the usage has been abandoned generally - there is no convenient way of conveying the same meaning.