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Re: USAGE: number concord in AmE, again

From:And Rosta <a-rosta@...>
Date:Saturday, June 22, 2002, 20:13
Christopher B Wright:
> And Rosta sekalge: > >Is this because animacy overrides > >number concord, so that "who have" is preferable to > >"which has"? > > Or perhaps it's a feature of Italian, and his *ngl*sh teachers forgot to > mention it. Alternately, you could say that current *ngl*sh has that > feature (the one you named), but the "standard" form doesn't.
This character is not Italian American. He's a local Nevadan. --And.