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https://www.footballinbracknel.....ent/  only just signed a new contract so seems unlikely plus he's a winger which we are certainly not short of
Hancock is almost 31 so don't really see why we'd be interested


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Take it from someone with an English degree, a dissertation in the history of spelling and years reading books on the mechanics of our language…

English is flexible as hell. You can refer to teams or clubs either using the singular or plural. Generally, it’s ‘Grimsby are’ when talking about team performance, and ‘Grimsby is’ when talking about business performance i.e. financial. Even then, that’s not a hard-and-fast rule - just like there’s never been a rule to say you shouldn’t split an infinitive, or that you can’t start a sentence with a conjunction like ‘and’ or ‘because’.

Written language is designed to reflect the way we speak. So if people say ‘Grimsby are’ when the pedants think it should technically be ‘Grimsby is’ then just write whatever sounds correct. That’d be my advice.

The one rule I’d suggest we all remember, though, is to chill out and stop being so pedantic with each other.


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And if we look to the future it would appear that Grimsby is on the cusp of signing a couple of players this week, hopefully players that can push the club forward. Grimsby are only a signing or two from a good side in my opinion…

That ok?


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Quoted from forza ivano


https://www.footballinbracknel.....ent/  only just signed a new contract so seems unlikely plus he's a winger which we are certainly not short of
Hancock is almost 31 so don't really see why we'd be interested


our number 7 shirt is still vacant so that would indicate we will see another winger coming through the door.
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Quoted from forza ivano


https://www.footballinbracknel.....ent/  only just signed a new contract so seems unlikely plus he's a winger which we are certainly not short of
Hancock is almost 31 so don't really see why we'd be interested


Hence the question marks after the players (I was merely guessing at them). Just what I heard about players from the 2 clubs. We could be looking at plenty of players, and quite rightly so, so any number of clubs could be thrown into the ring. They’ve gotta be right at some point you would’ve thought


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Sorry, but it is.

American English refers to a company as a singular entity (is/was etc...) whilst in British English a company is generally taken to be a collective noun (are/were etc...)

Anyway, it's not worth arguing about. Mainly because you're wrong


Yep, It 100% is an Americanism that's got in under the radar. Until I dealt with big multi-national companies, I'd never even noticed a company referred to as a singular entity. It's getting much more common now, and I was watching a documentary where a UK tech company boss was annoyed at people using both versions so mandated that everybody refers to companies as a singular entity.
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Text speak is now creeping into language.


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Text speak is now creeping into language.


Thought the true art of text speak was dying out as it was needed for an interim technology (using alphanumeric keys on old mobile phones) as opposed to using touch screens with qwerty keyboards.


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Yep, It 100% is an Americanism that's got in under the radar. Until I dealt with big multi-national companies, I'd never even noticed a company referred to as a singular entity. It's getting much more common now, and I was watching a documentary where a UK tech company boss was annoyed at people using both versions so mandated that everybody refers to companies as a singular entity.


With respect PP that is simply untrue. I can remember in 1964 having a Use Of English essay returned marked down for every time I had used the phrase “the Labour Party are” and being told that I should only use “are” in a context where I was writing about a group of named members of the party.



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