[PRCo] Re: English

[Donald Galt]

On 14 Dec 2002 at 22:29, John F Bromley wrote:

> 
> I'm having real trouble with this one.  No Englishman worthy of the name
> would say such a thing - certainly none I've ever spoken with, and that
> would be well into the hundreds.  Must've been the two morons amongst the
> entire lot.
> 

Tell me if I'm wrong, but I suspect is that Bob R, acute observer though he is, 
mis-reports the difference between American and British treatment of collective 
subjects.

At the moment my mind is a blank as to collective nouns appropriate to Bob's 
experience, but the classic example is "Her Majesty's government are ..." as 
opposed to "The Bush White House is ...."

Don G