grammar

[Donnie Byrd]

Howard S. Rosen wrote:
> 
> >>"The Lindeman family have been building pianos for 85
> >>years."  Jim Harvey or Susan Kline, can you correct the grammar?
> >>
> >>Bill Maxim
> 
> This is actually correct grammar in England where many nouns are plural to
> them but singular to us. This is evident in Hemingway's "The Sun Also
> Rises". In England you will often hear phrases like "The crowd are
> cheering" etc. It sounds funny to us, but correct to them.
> 
> Howard S. Rosen, RPT
> Boynton Beach, Florida

"Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
The Frenchmen teach their French; the Greek will teach their Greek.

If you spoke the way she does, Sir, instead of the way you do,
you might be selling flowers, too."

Of something like that, said Professor Higgins.