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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a lice" is not correct and usable in written English.
It is incorrect because "lice" is a plural noun, and the singular form is "louse."
Example: "I found a louse in my hair, which is concerning because lice can spread quickly."
Alternatives: "a louse" or "one louse".
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Malachy said, What's a lice? and Mam said, Not lice.
Plato, for example, may have died of a lice infestation.
Since the bugs lay three to five eggs a day, a lice outbreak can become exponentially bad fairly quickly.
His wife Queen Maxima is even registered there as a "lice mother", with responsibility for inspecting children's hair.
She got the idea after picking nits at her child's kindergarten during a lice outbreak a few years earlier.
As the blonde, who had sheared her hair when a lice epidemic broke on the deck, and the scrawny daughter standing by her started devouring the bread, Agripina Fyodorovna Antipova looked at the sea with her eyes wide open in bewilderment and noticed that not only the ship they were in, but all the ships anchored in the harbour were surrounded with such boats.
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"The water contained so much insecticide that it could actually be used directly as a lice-control pesticide," van der Sluijs said.
Dragonflies, which eat mosquitoes, and other creatures that live in water are also suffering, with some studies showing that ditchwater has become so contaminated it could be used directly as a lice-control pesticide.
According to court records, Mr. Paul also had fliers advertising himself as a lice-removal specialist who would spray children for lice, a process that would require children to undress completely.
One of them is a louse.
Afterward, Timberlake was such a louse.
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