Prince Harry banned from clubbing

THN ^ | May 18 2007

[ASC2006]

Prince Harry, who was stopped from travelling to Iraq this week because of security fears, has now bee banned from visiting his favourite London nightclubs. Harry was supposed to fly out to fight with Army squadron this week, but that was vetoed at the top level by Army officials. Now the young Prince has been told to 'lie low' while his Army unit are away.

[Past Your Eyes]

Now you’re splitting hares.

[Past Your Eyes]

[aruanan]

"...while his Army unit are away"????? Good grief, whatever happened to the Queen's English?

That is proper English in English English. Look it up. A collective noun has a singular form but takes a plural verb.

[aruanan]

You might as well say “To each their own”.

No, "each" is singular in every possible way.

[ZinGirl]

wait a minute...we're talking the Brits, here...when we're talking rabbits/hares, we need, of course, THIS:

[agere_contra]

Exactly. Or perhaps it would be fairer to say that both single and plural verb forms can be applied to a collective noun.

For instance: it’s hard to say that one of the following is definitively wrong.

“the Army are kicking Sadr’s butt”
“the Army is kicking Sadr’s butt”

[Thinkin' Gal]

God forbid, but you only have to imagine the front page if we had lost a Blues and Royal at the same time Harry was photographed out on the razzle." They added.

[TomB]

You do realize there are differences between British English and American English, don’t you?

[TomB]

Heh!

Long time no see! Good to see you not banned, a. Seems like everybody else is...

[AndyJackson]

Where you come from, quite apparently, one is not schooled in the grammar of the Queen’s English.

[AndyJackson]

We all speak Mr. Gates’s English now.

[TomB]

We all speak Mr. Gates’s English now.

I was just thinking about that. How the other poster could possibly be unaware of the differences between British and American English considering the amount of articles and writing we see from the UK on a daily basis.

[aruanan]

Long time no see! Good to see you not banned, a. Seems like everybody else is...

Any main reason for their banning--or will asking that get me banned?

[TomB]

Any main reason for their banning--or will asking that get me banned?

Dunno. When I came back after a bit of a hiatus, it seemed like a lot of familiar regulars were gone.

[WannabeTurk]

That is the Queen's English.

Collective nouns can take the plural verb form when the emphasis is on the body as a whole.

You are correct.

[cajungirl]

Okay, listen up.

HARRY IS IN IRAQ. They are not saying it but the “ban on clubbing” is to account for his absence from clubs. The “low profile” is to give cover. I swear. He is in Iraq and those wily Brits are doing it on the down low.

That is my conspiracy theory and I am sticking with it.

[britemp]

‘You do realize there are differences between British English and American English, don’t you?’

There is no such thing as ‘British English’.

There is English and there is American English. British English is a tautology and therefore redundant. One is not required to stress the geographical identifier on the original version of something. Hence English postage stamps do not have the country printed on them as they were invented by the English and The Times newspaper does not need London or UK in its title as it was the first so-named. Thus the English version of English does not need proceeding with British, but the geographical subversions such as American English do. :)

[aruanan]

There is no such thing as ‘British English’.

There is English and there is American English. British English is a tautology and therefore redundant.

No, it's not. If I refer to someone's English dialect and someone else asks "which English" and I can say American or Indian or Liberian or South African, I can logically and with no redundancy say "British English". The fact that a question can be answered and requires the modifier "British" to be answered correctly if I'm referring to the English of the British Isles demonstrates this.

[weegie]

“English Postage Stamps” - Is England printing its own postage stamps now?

Somebody should tell the British Post Office. they will be very upset

[britemp]

It is still tautolgical and unecessary. You would not say someone spoke Germanic German or French French. You would either say French, referring to the original version spoken in France or you would use the geographical modifier, such as Canadian French. The same rule applies to English, but common useage in the US has led the tautology to become accepted.