From Newsgroup: alt.usage.english
Peter Moylan <
peter@pmoylan.org> posted:
On 10/06/26 04:01, Mark Brader wrote:
Bertel Lund Hansen:
I believe that the police is quite used to handling stuff that exited
the natural way.
I, on the other hand, believe that the police *are* quite used
to that.
This one is a trap for the unwary. "Police" is singular in some
languages, plural in others.
Yes, I've always regarded the tongue-twister "The Leith police dismisseth us" as ungrammatical.
--
athel
Living in Marseilles for 39 years; mainly in England before that,
with long periods in Singapore, California, Chile and Canada
--- Synchronet 3.22a-Linux NewsLink 1.2