[Magdalen] Creeping UK-ism?

[Sibyl Smirl]

It may make sense, but we were always taught in American schools that a 
collective noun, such as "team",  for a group, takes a singular verb (He 
has, they have).  It wasn't even ungrammatical common usage: speech just 
seemed naturally to follow the rule.  I only began hearing it this way 
from the BBC World Service newscasts, specifically on "sport" (not 
"sports"), long after I was an adult, and it always jarred on my 
"proofreader's ear"

On 7/26/15 12:17 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
> Makes sense.
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> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 7:37 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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>> I've notice that the regional sports (yes; that is plural in North
>> America)
>> announcers, reporters, and even players are making "team"  plural.
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>> Thus, we get, "The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton team have a day
>> off" instead of ....."has a day off".
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>> Is this happening elsewhere in North America?
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>> David S.
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