Re: CHAT: R: Re: CHAT: Yorkshire/Texas (was: dl)

> > > Indeed, if memory serves, pre-civil war (1860-ish) the US was much more
> > > a loose conglomerate of states rather than the unified entity it is
> today.
> >
> > Not all that loose.  But it did, interestingly, take plural agreement,
> > and phrases like "The United States, or any of them" would seem very
> > strange today.
>
>
> Well, in Italian *they* still take the plural:
>
> gli     Stati Uniti             sono una repubblica
> ART States United.PL    are   a   republic.
>
Hungarian and Serbian do like that too, but I can't show it in the example
sentence you have because it would come like this:

Az Egyesult Allamok: koztarsasag.
ART United States  : republic.

If you don't believe me look at the Hungarian constitution, article 1
says:

Magyarorszag: koztarsasag.

-------ferko
Ferenc Gy. Valoczy

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