Please

Please

First Company, Singular

4 December 2005
Filed under Business, Language, Text

Grammatical irritation of the week (a new, entirely irregular column at I Am Alert):

A company or business, while (usually) accommodating more than one person, is an entity in and of itself, and should be referred to as such. Only the most grammatically foolhardy would write “My Company Are Really Great”, but most seem to think nothing of the slightest variation on that construction: “Company, based in CompanyLand, are a small web design firm…”

Uggh. Just stop it.

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