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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you are a trooper to endure all of these errors. In this context, I should write that OP is a trouper unless, of course, OP is a state trooper. Then, OP, a trooper, is a trouper for enduring all of these errors.[/quote] Never knew that! I thought "trooper" as in a foot soldier, who carries on without complaining. But I suspect that trooper is now acceptable. Google ngrams shows that since 1997 or so "a real trooper" is more common in books than "a real trouper." https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=a+real+trooper%2Ca+real+trouper&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t4%3B%2Ca%20real%20trooper%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Ba%20real%20trooper%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BA%20real%20trooper%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Ca%20real%20trouper%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Ba%20real%20trouper%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BA%20real%20trouper%3B%2Cc0[/quote]
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