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To: SJackson
Rutgers University are investigating

The English invented our goofy language but why do they consider Rutgers University plural? Is it because Rutgers ends in s?

60 posted on 04/08/2012 11:35:31 AM PDT by Reeses
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To: Reeses
To the Brits, every identifiable body of people, such as a company or university, are described by the plural.

See, I just did it! ≤}B^)

I use the plural occasionally like this, just to get a rise out of American folks, and to make some of them think I must be British.

67 posted on 04/08/2012 6:24:37 PM PDT by Erasmus (BHO: New supreme leader of the homey rollin' empire.)
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