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Re: USAGE: number concord in AmE, again

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Saturday, June 22, 2002, 3:20
Christopher B Wright wrote:
> 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.
Why *ngl*sh? Anyhoo, that's how I'd say it, and I'm a native speaker. I might also say "which has". -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42