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- From: djohns@elm.circa.ufl.edu (David A. Johns)
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- Subject: Re: They (was Re: Shaking people up with "she"? (was Re: Sexist language))
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- Date: 30 Dec 92 11:47:10 GMT
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- In article <12189@kesson.ed.ac.uk> iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski) writes:
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- # And as far as grammaticality goes, apparent violation of number
- # agreement is a pretty common thing, particularly in British
- # English, where singular collective nouns frequently trigger plural
- # agreement.
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- Yes, yes -- the government have decided -- a barbarism no American
- would think of uttering.
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- :)
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- David Johns
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