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kj12345 on Feb 2, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: What on earth are Google thinking? (re: Binggate)

I think it's just the British English way of referring to companies or groups with plural verbs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_di...

will_critchlow on Feb 2, 2011 [–]

Huh. I'm British and I would always use singular for a company (not for sports teams necessarily ref: that wiki link). Are we really supposed to say "Google are having an earnings call on Tuesday"? I would say "Google is having an earnings call on Tuesday".

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