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Old 29th November 2011, 02:37 PM
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Originally Posted by BJMoose View Post
Sloppiness, stupidity, and laziness.

Actually, some collective nouns, like committee, have succeded in making the trek from plural to singular usage. (It used to be the committee are; now it's the committee is.) It looks like media is attempting the same trick, not realizing that it is merely a plural noun, not a collective noun, even if it does refer to a collection of dolts. . . .
Well it's generally conceded that I'm older than dirt, but I can not remember a time when committee was plural. The whole point of collective nouns is that they're singular. Committee, herd, crowd, faculty, union, are singular. You can have more than one of each, and then they become committees, herds, crowds, etc.
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