Margaret Thatcher Quotes

[Tom Zurinskas]

There's the word "register" again.  I suppose it to mean "social registers" or social class.  A classism stratification.


Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
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> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Bill Palmer wrote:
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>> Now  I would have said "family *was*". But I hear all kinds of collective
>> nouns now, with plural verb forms. Â Fearing the "prescriptivist" label, I am
>> reluctant to ask which is correct. Â What say the professors about this whole
>> thing?
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>> Bill Palmer
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> In British English, collective nouns take plural verbs much more often
> than in American English, even in the snootier registers of the
> language.
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> Paul
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