Thursday, January 3, 2013

#216 singular or plural

One more thought from the Civil War series --

Writer Shelby Foote commented that before the Civil War, people everywhere referred to the United States as a plural, and thus used the grammatically correct "are".  The united states are engaged in a discourse....

It actually took the war to unite the country, and after the altercation ended the nomenclature changed to how we know it in present day.  It became singular; the United States is.  The United States is one of the greatest countries on earth.

How do you refer to your organization and its many components?  Is it singular in mission and language or are there fragments that portray you as a set of parts?  Even if your parts are united in name, they aren't truly united until it becomes an "is".

-- beth triplett
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