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In Portuguese, where -2 < x < 2, x is singular.

    * 0 thing
    * 0.5 thing
    * -1.3 thing
    * 1.99999 thing
    * -2 things
    * etc
This is true at least in Brazil though I'm fairly certain it's shared grammar with the descendants of the European barbarians who invaded it in the 1500s.

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