“My bank is awful.”
American English views organizations as a singular entity, not so much a group of individuals.
As does modern Australian English for the most part (I would typically say "my bank is awful". But I'd just as likely use "they" as a pronoun for it, especially if describing actions that were clearly carried out by those working there). I'd guess the same of NZ and Canadian English?
Re:LLMs Confabulate Not Hallucinate
by sheepscreek on Thursday October 05, 2023 @08:20AM
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Yep - they while describing their actions. In that respect, Canadian English is practically the same as American English. At least in the NY/Ontario region.
> My bank are awful, by the way, is grammatical in British, though not American, English.
How would someone phrase this in idiomatic American English?