[Magdalen] Creeping UK-ism?

[Roger Stokes]

On 26/07/2015 20:11, Sibyl Smirl wrote:
> 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"

How does your proofreader's ear react to American expressions that don't 
make sense such as "All doors will not open at the next stop"?

Roger