User talk:GimliDotNet/Archives/2015/January

Group is singular . ..
The word "group" is generally now treated in both British and American English as singular--ergo "group travels"--unless there is evidence of disparity in that group in the sentence. However, I do not want to edit war over anything, much less an issue of grammar or syntax, so I'll just express my stylistic annoyance here and hope you do not get too mad. Grrr. :) HullIntegrity (talk) 21:18, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * OR maybe I cannot read "Group decide" without getting cranky. HullIntegrity (talk) 21:30, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Actually, the use of "group" is a pretty interesting case. Click Me for British Grammar. HullIntegrity (talk) 21:37, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * My understanding is that travels would relate to multiple journeys but I could be getting confused GimliDotNet ( Speak to me,  Stuff I've done )  21:47, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * My grammarian friend says this: "The group depart at different times throughout the day" is correct. "The group departs daily at five" is also correct . . . . English tends to use plural forms a lot more for collective nouns, and what Americans like to call "American English" uses singular forms more." So . . . I now have no idea! HullIntegrity (talk) 23:33, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Lol. My FB friends are going bananas on this one! (But then I have VERY geeky friends.) HullIntegrity (talk) 23:36, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * My great aunt Wanda and 53 other FB associates say it should be "group travels". Egads! Thank heavens they are not all on Wikipedia. This whole discussion probably should have been on the Talk page for the article. HullIntegrity (talk) 03:28, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
 * The article should follow British (Oxford) English, I think we need an expert in that to comment. GimliDotNet ( Speak to me,  Stuff I've done )  05:51, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Ok. I can do that. HullIntegrity (talk) 06:29, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
 * The consensus from the UK English professors I know is to use the s in this case, though neither is technically "wrong". BBC English HullIntegrity (talk) 16:02, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi. I changed it back to "Group travels".Please let me know if you still have a problem with the change before reverting and we can move it to the talk page. Cheers. HullIntegrity (talk) 01:10, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
 * That works for me. Thanks for an insane amount of discussion about one letter. HullIntegrity (talk) 20:16, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

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Gandalf's race?
Should Gandalf's race be included in that last edit? Hmmmm. . . that might be very tricky. HullIntegrity (talk) 15:49, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Dorothy Sayers and the Inklings
Hi! I will research this about Sayers, and get back to you when I can. Thanks for contacting me!

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