Re: Re: Re: Re: How About Having Plague And It's Effects!!
If it helps, the family of diseases you refer to (from the Pasturella Pestis bacteria) are *the* plague; any general pandemic of a disease, or indeed a mass invasion of locusts, greenfly, moths etc., is *a* plague.
I told you English was complicated
Originally posted by Besuchov
After looking up the word plague in my swedish-english dictionary I realize that it could also refer to a horrible disease in general. What a meat was the family i disesases that include bubonic plague, known in swedish as "pest".
If it helps, the family of diseases you refer to (from the Pasturella Pestis bacteria) are *the* plague; any general pandemic of a disease, or indeed a mass invasion of locusts, greenfly, moths etc., is *a* plague.
I told you English was complicated