USAGE: THEORY/USAGE: irregular English plurals (was: RE:[CONLANG] Optimum number of symbols

Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
> But now you say, that "police" is a plural as well? That suprises me!
It's true.  One says things like "The police are investigating the
crime", even over here in the US where we say "The team is".  Now that I
think about it, that is very strange.  :-)

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