E-mail from Stack Exchange with incorrect plural

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I received an e-mail from Stack Exchange with the title:

1 new items in your Stack Exchange inbox

This is incorrect. The correct writing is: "1 new item".

It would be nice to correct this.

Then, the text of the e-mail starts with :

The following items were added to your Stack Exchange global inbox

There is a plural here too, but here we may accept it (generic sentence, before a list).

tchrist

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twitter.com/codinghorror/status/1165936105
– Madara's Ghost
Feb 25, 2015 at 11:10
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meta.stackexchange.com/questions/208721/… seems to be broken again?
– Sathyajith Bhat
Feb 25, 2015 at 11:11
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Just pretend that we have our own version of English, and an S on the end of anything but a mass noun is silent. If we go so far as to pluralize a mass noun, we'll fix it right after we finish eating our cereals.
– Tim Post
Feb 25, 2015 at 14:54
There is another problem with the same system, reported here: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/252969/…
– James
Apr 7, 2015 at 18:25
@Tim so this is status-declined?
– Shadow Wizard Says No More War
Apr 7, 2015 at 19:57
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@TimPost With all due respects, this are just being lazy programmers who is not wanting to makes really English good and red. 😝
– tchrist
Jul 19, 2015 at 0:54

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