@jwz@mastodon.social @dangillmor@mastodon.social I maintain that American English is worse than British/international English in that we (Americans) refer to corporate and legal entities and groups in the singular, whereas others use the plural. E.g. Google is behaving unethically vs. Google are behaving unethically. In the latter there’s a subconscious shift that alludes to people running it as opposed to being a thing in and of itself.