none...have/has

[Paul Frank]

It took me a long time to unlearn the shall/will, should/would rule that was
drummed in to me in school in England. While we're on the subject of
prescriptivist rules, here's a quote from today's New York Times:

"None of the shark attacks in Florida have involved people on shark- feeding
expeditions, though one woman in the Keys was bitten on the calf last year
by a nurse shark after crew members on a boat tossed scraps of fish into the
water."

Would it sound stilted to write "none of the shark attacks in Florida has
involved..."?

Paul
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