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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Just for you, Thrasher, I am posting this:
Perhaps she is British. Don't they treat collective nouns as plural? The team are going for ice cream?
I may be mistaken. I'm sure someone on here will know.
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Someone probably already addressed this, but I cannot resist:
I think maybe RP was referring to the use of "who" instead of "that" when referring to "the group" as opposed to the collective noun treated as singular. You are correct that the British do that collective noun-plural thingy.
(e.g. "My family live there." As uttered by Sebastian Flyte, referring to the monstrosity of a "home" in Brideshead Revisited -- I don't know why, but that sentence sticks with me for some reason -- I didn't even need to google it.)
