tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jan 13 12:15:04 2000
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RE: Klingon WOTD: Hoy' (v)
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Steven Boozer wrote:
> Collective nouns are singular in American English ("Congress is in session")
> but plural in British English ("Parliament are in session"), so this can be
> problematic depending on which dialect you learned.
One slight flaw: Oxford English now has Parliament as a singular noun.
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