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Re "a one"

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I removed this paragraph from the article:

In standard English, the prop-word one cannot appear immediately after the indefinite article: a one (...) would be replaced by simply one (...) (analyzable as an ordinary pronoun or numeral). However, a one is possible in some dialects.

Standard English uses "a one" in at least one collocation, "such a one", so this is clearly too simplistic. There may or may not be more - either way, I don't feel qualified to fix it, and as there're no sources, moving it here was the best I could think of. - 2A02:560:4251:7C00:7C1B:AEED:C343:273 (talk) 10:13, 9 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]