Post #1351276
2026-03-31 06:44 UTC
@Starfia Nah, I don't think it's actually that. Although it is an interesting thought when you consider the aforementioned "colleague" vs "coworker" thing ("colleague" being MUCH more common in the UK).
I think it maybe has more in common with "data is" vs "data are", because while almost no-one says "data are" anymore, I have heard some older people doing it.
I often recommend this book, The Prodigal Tongue by @lynneguist.bsky.social. I may have even recommended it to YOU before; apologies if that's the case. It's all about the differences between so-called US English and English everywhere else in the world. I can't remember exactly, but I'm fairly certain there was a chapter on this very topic....
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@Starfia@mastodon.social 2026-04-04 08:12
@GrahamDowns – That seems a most relevant book recommendation (which I don't recall you having made to me previously, not that I'd have minded). ^ ^ (It's hard to imagine the US as the outlier in this case; I admit to paraphrasing with my original "US" label; I could have typed the full "North America," as I can't imagine the "UK" version occurring in Canada either.)