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Mark Roberts wrote: >P. J. Alling wrote: > > > >>I don't think corporations are singular in Britain. But you see strange >>anomalies over time as well. >> >> > >Collective nouns are plural in Britain. You'll notice it all the time >with sports teams. In British English it's correct to say "Manchester >*are* playing Liverpool..." > > > Prior to the 1860s a writer would have written "The United States of > > America are..." afterward the same writer > > would most likely have written, "The United States of America is..." > > Small difference that a war makes in point of view. > >It's also likely that American usage started out the same as British and >slowly evolved into its current form. You can make a logical argument >either way when it comes to treating collective nouns as singular or >plural, but languages seldom behave logically. ;-) > > > -- 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.
