Re: Adobe as bad as Micro$oft ?!

[Andrew Grebneff]

On Sep 20, 2004, at 6:43 AM, Andrew Grebneff wrote:
We all know how bad Micro$oft are (have been ?)
Is. Singular. It IS a company.
Unless you're in the U.K. where singular nouns referring to a group 
are treated as plural ("the team are").
That is bad English derived from the upper/middle classes ignorantly 
following some illiterate royalty, as i discovered a few days ago. It 
is WRONG.
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