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  • [The team is] =?UTF-8?B?RW5nX0dCICBoYXMgYSBiaWcgcGVhayBhdCAyMDA0?=

    From HenHanna@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 1 01:37:38 2024
    XPost: sci.lang, alt.usage.english

    Here... [The team is] Eng_GB has a big peak at 2004

    -- having increased for 10 years
    -- Peaks in 2004
    -- then rapid decrease for 10 years

    Is there an explanation for it?

    it's like... Brits decided to imitate Americans for 10 years
    and then changed mind in 2004, and ....... for 10 years.


    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=The+team+is%3Aeng_us%2CThe+team+are%3Aeng_us%2CThe+team+is%3Aeng_gb%2CThe+team+are%3Aeng_gb&year_start=1930&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3



    ______________________________(BEGIN quote)

    "Is" is much more common than "are". Also "are" is much
    more common in Britain than the U.S., as usual in such constructions.

    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=The+jury+is%3Aeng_us%2CThe+jury+are%3Aeng_us%2CThe+jury+is%3Aeng_gb%2CThe+jury+are%3Aeng_gb&year_start=1930&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3&case_insensitive=false

    https://tinyurl.com/5b6r6cwb

    (I made it case-sensitive to eliminate "members of the jury are" etc.)

    The shift in number from "the jury is" to "they" is
    common, at least in American English.

    --
    Jerry Friedman
    --
    Jerry Friedman

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