>>>>>(HINT: "incidences")
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>>>>Actually, "incidence," not "incidences."
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>>>>Tamar
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>>>Nah, in common speech one would say "There has been an incidence of ... in the city" or could say "There is/has been incidence ...", fair enough, to denote one occurence, but " ... several incidences".
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>>No, I'm hard pressed to come up with any situation where "incidences" is right. "Incidents" is right if you referring to a number of individual episodes. "Incidence" is right, if you mean the frequency of something.
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>>Tamar
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>I see it as "incidence" is something that exists, such as a disease, whereas "incidents" are things that happen - then are gone, such as a motor bike accident, a stabbing, et al.
From merriam-webster.com:
1 a: angle of incidence b: the arrival of something (as a projectile or a ray of light) at a surface
2 a: an act or the fact or manner of falling upon or affecting : occurrence b: rate of occurrence or influence [a high incidence of crime]
We can ignore #1 for this discussion. Looks like you're thinking of 2a, while to me 2b is the common usage. Wish they had an example for 2a.
Tamar
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