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   Hi, Mark!  Recently you wrote in a message to Alexander Koryagin:   
      
    AK>  As for the absence of "a" before "vegetarian" I don't know.   
      
    ml>  remember, a vegetarian is vegetarian... it is one of those   
    ml>  words that is both a noun and an adjective...   
      
      
               Yes, and WRT this word I think popular usage may have changed over   
   the years.  When I was a kid one of my older relatives married a vegetarian...   
   or so I was informed at the time.  But nowadays such people generally identify   
   themselves as "vegetarian", without the article....  :-)   
      
      
      
      
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