Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!apple!apple.com!rmh
From: rmh@apple.com (Rick Holzgrafe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: New MacinTalk (with MacinListen!) ?
Message-ID: <7266@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 19 Mar 90 21:30:50 GMT
References: <2909@castle.ed.ac.uk>
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In article <2909@castle.ed.ac.uk> erci18@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham) 
writes:
> A computer system which can recognise continuous speech, launched by
> researchers from Edinburgh last week, may form the basis of a personal
> computer controlled by voice. The American computer company Apple [...]
> are (sic) planning to adapt some of the approaches used in the new
> system for its own computers.
> [...]
> Can anyone in Apple comment on this article?

Yes. American grammar considers a "company" to be a single object, hence 
Americans would say "Apple Computer *is*..." The British consider a 
"company" to be a group of individuals, hence a collective object referred 
to in the plural; hence they say "Apple Computer *are*...". Both usages 
are considered correct.

:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

> Tony Cunningham, Edinburgh University Computing Service. 
erci18@castle.ed.ac.uk

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