How do you (mis)pronounce some words

[ameerat42]

Mine, another grammatical one, is with the singular / plural meaning of something.

For example "so-and-so team have..." - isn't team a singular, consisting of individuals (plural), ie "so-and-so team has..."

Or "Tasmania Police are doing-such-and-such" - we do only have one police force here, don't we? Or is every member of the force a "Tasmania Police" in-itself?

Maybe I'm being pedantic, but all the I's in my head agrees.

Hey, ScottM. It depends on how the collective noun is perceived as doing the action, ie: is a whole force doing an action en masse, say, or is a whole bunch of individual doing a lot of individual actions. It's not one you can strictly apply the rule of singulars (now there's something) and plurals.

If you really want to get upset about something, take a stick to those who say the likes of "...there's a lot of birds in the sky..."
Am, or sometimes A(he)m.

Edit. Upon re-reading your missive I suggest you really try saying seriously "Tasmania Police is holding a fete this weekend..."
You're right! It does grate. Now if it were "...The Tasmania Police Force is...", well, I might go, myself.