On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 08:26:34PM -0400, ann sanfedele wrote: > Mark Roberts wrote: > > >John Francis wrote: > > > >>Specialise (rather than specialize) would be correct in the UK. Similarly > >>an American would expect "Yophoto *is* proud ..." rather than "*are* proud" > >>(which is the only thing I could see wrong with the original example). > > > >Yep. All looks like standard British spelling and grammar to me. > > > hmmm I see, I had no idea one said "are" after a sigular in Britain , > or specialise without the s....
The American usage grates on British ears, especially when you get the "Masterpiece Theatre invites you to join with them ..." which I used to hear every week. "Invites" is singular, so why do we have "them" ? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
