"a nation who has ..."?

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Sat Oct 27 00:58:28 UTC 2007


At 10/26/2007 08:24 PM, Chris Waigl wrote:
>Also, note all the plurals above from American sources.

And some from British sources.  I see a mixed bag of singular and
plural, and one quote that used singular with "firm" and plural with
"company."  Do I sense, from this small sample, a plurality for the
plural with "nation"?

Joel

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