Timeline for Is 'The band of pipers is playing' correct?
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| Nov 4, 2021 at 9:21 | vote | accept | insomniac | ||
| Nov 2, 2021 at 22:51 | comment | added | LPH | @Barmar ngram (2/2) | |
| Nov 2, 2021 at 22:50 | comment | added | LPH | @Barmar No, I didn't, but I am aware of this fact; I even had the impression once that plurals are not even used at all in AmE for certain nouns, such as for instance "government". I could come up with an ngram, but it can't be trusted: it has be full of false poisitives. Anyway, I let you see for yourself: it is in fact contradictory for this particular noun. (1/2) | |
| Nov 2, 2021 at 22:18 | comment | added | Barmar | Did you try distinguishing British vs American corpuses? I think Brits are more likely to use plurals with collective nouns. | |
| Nov 2, 2021 at 21:13 | history | answered | LPH | CC BY-SA 4.0 |