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And if you get any news from bbc.co.uk or read British bloggers you'll get accustomed to sports teams and corporations being considered plural. e.g.: "Apple today are releasing..."

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Well it's accurate, a corporation isn't an individual and when you're dealing with big business it is always controlled by multiple people so any decision is decided by a group.

Actually a corporation is, legally, an individual.

Unless I'm mistaken, that absurd notion is only entertained in the US.

It also works like that in the Netherlands.

Nope. I am British and used to be a journalist. The first place I worked had a very large sign on the wall:

"Companies are singular".

Which indeed they are, although staffed by multiple individuals.

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