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Tidewater

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What gripes my gizzard is continuing confusion about whether to use a singular or plural verb with “Crimson Tide.” This has been previously discussed on here at some point. I believe as a collective noun “Crimson Tide” should be used with a singular verb; such as, “the Tide is moving the ball.” But I continue to hear announcers frequently say “Crimson Tide are ...”
The English construction versus the American.
In the Beatles song, "Only a Northern Song," George Harrison wrote:
When you're listening late at night
You may think the band are not quite right
But they are
They just play it like that.

The members of "the band are not quite right." Sound strange to American ears but the Brits say this all the time.
 

GrayTide

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He don't know
She don't know

I guess when people say this they cannot hear that it sounds wrong. I suspect if they have heard that all their life it sounds right.

I was taught to use the Oxford comma, although I never heard it called that. It is also referred to as serial comma.
 
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TIDE-HSV

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He don't know
She don't know

I guess when people say this they cannot hear that it sounds wrong. I suspect if they have heard that all their life it sounds right.

I was taught to use the Oxford comma, although I never heard it called that. It is also referred to as serial comma.
Actually, "he don't" is another one of those ancient structures. Chaucer used "he ax me."
 

uafan4life

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while i generally prefer to use the oxford comma, we were taught the opposite in grade school.

but you probably consider the ap styleguide to be a liberal media manifesto
When I got to high school I had to "unlearn" the Turabian style my dad taught me in order to learn the AP style for research papers.

To this day, I refuse to omit the Oxford comma as one can easily give hundreds of potential, everyday examples where omitting it confuses the meaning of the sentence.
 
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4Q Basket Case

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Using “I” in the objective case.

As in, “They went with Jane and I.”

Fingernails on a chalkboard, and I hear it every day from supposedly educated professionals.

Equating “everyday” with “every day.”

The former means ordinary, run of the mill, acceptable but nothing special.

The latter means on a daily basis. I see that in newspaper headlines from what passes today as journalists.
 

4Q Basket Case

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Also mangled use of "would have" in the sense of speculating on future events, given a different outcome of a preceding one.

As in, "If Alabama would have made more free throws, they would have beaten aTm."

For all that is holy, it's, "If Alabama had made more free throws, they would have beaten aTm.

Triple dunce points, and remedial English lessons with Bent Fullwood, for using "would of" instead of "would have" in any context whatsoever.
 
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