On Aug 13, 2014, at 3:38 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> PS/Off-topic: what's the proper way to talk about MacPorts in English?
> "MacPorts is" or "MacPorts are"? (wxWidgets is / are)
I speak American English in which I've usually heard collective nouns used with
singular verbs ("MacPorts is"). But in British English it is more common to use
a plural verb ("MacPorts are"). In fact it depends on the context. Some info at
http://alt-usage-english.org/groupnames.html
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