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ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits album at Amazon.com
ABBA's, "The Winner Takes It All"
The Lyrics:
The gods may throw a dice.
Their minds as cold as ice.
And someone way down here
Loses someone dear.
Their minds as cold as ice.
And someone way down here
Loses someone dear.
Why:
Since the noun "dice" is plural, the singular being "die", the phrase "a dice" cannot be correct; it would need to be "a die" to be correct. But then that wouldn't rhyme with "cold as ice". On can wonder whether the writer(s) of these lyrics were unaware that "dice" as a noun is obligatorily plural, or whether they knew that, but went ahead with "a dice" anyway to facilitate the rhyme.
Submitted by: Renee Keener
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