Agreement question

[Lisa O'Brien]

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even better. See ya later babe!! xoxo Lisa








>From: Beverly Flanigan <flanigan at OHIOU.EDU>
>Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject: Re: Agreement question
>Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:39:33 -0400
>
>I've read that British usage tends to give a plural, collectivist sense to
>words like "press," along the lines Pat mentioned in another posting.  I
>can't think of other examples cited, though, and I can't recall the
>source.  Was it on this list?
>
>At 01:00 PM 10/18/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>>On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:53:25PM -0400, Dennis R. Preston wrote:
>> >Of course "the stories the team tell" or "the stories the jury tell"
>> >are perfectly good English in some varieties, so I'd go for the
>> >plural sense rather than the 's' business.
>>
>>Yes, but at least in my variety of English, and the idiolects of
>>others I've asked, "the stories the press tell" is more
>>acceptable than "the stories the team tell", however acceptable
>>the latter might be in other varieties. So I'm looking for some
>>explanation of why there's this discrepancy.
>>
>>Jesse Sheidlower


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