Okay, so, I realize that I’ve yet to tell you all about York, ore the rest of my Thanksgiving, or my excellent adventure in Covent Garden yesterday, but, you know, I will. As I was browsing The Student Room’s forums today, searching for the differences between American essay formatting and UK essay formatting (apparently, Brits write the question at the top of their paper? What question? Why? Where’d the thesis go? Why can’t you tell what the question is from the thesis?), I came across this post, entitled ‘Microsoft Word Spell Check’. I recount it here mainly because I feel like having a laugh at somebody else’s misguided sense of grammar without shoving it in their faces.
“Mircosoft Word Spell Check
Often when I type ‘ are ‘ it highlights this with wrong and suggests ‘ is ‘.
So a sentence like ….. ‘ Arsenal Football Club ‘ are absolute rubbish … will be changed to ‘ is absolute rubbish ‘.
Who is right?”
But I believe the British see certain nouns that we consider singular as plural because they are made up of a group of things/people. E.g. A team is plural because there are multiple people on a team (there’s no I in team, remember!).
Yeah, but there are rules about that in the English language. They just choose not to teach/learn/follow them, and then question when they get it wrong…
i think he’s just ignorant… or had a very bad elementary school education…