[Magdalen] Creeping UK-ism?

[anthony clavier]

To make a singular noun plural was a no no in England when I was a boy, and
particularly on the Beeb. The announcers then all had upper crust accents
and vocabularies.

Tony

On Sunday, July 26, 2015, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
wrote:

> 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
>


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The Rev. Tony Clavier
Vicar: St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, Glen Carbon IL
and St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, Granite City IL