Timeline for What does a "stray evidence" mean?
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| Nov 2, 2011 at 16:28 | vote | accept | wleao | ||
| Nov 1, 2011 at 22:25 | comment | added | Peter Shor | "Evidence" is a mass noun, and doesn't take the indefinite article or number adjectives. If you want to specify just one, you say "a stray piece of evidence". | |
| Oct 28, 2011 at 1:26 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I'm afraid there aren't many examples for OP. Google finds 23 hits in total for a stray evidence, which net down to six distinct instances of a usage like OP's. Without the article, stray evidence scores a slightly more respectable 1000 or so. Not exactly commonplace, but enough to back me up in thinking this use of the article is a bit odd here. | |
| Oct 28, 2011 at 0:33 | history | answered | Daniel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |