taxons and orthography

[A Mitchell]

>
>Consider this, Dick: Would you say, "The Beatles is a British rock
>band?"  I wouldn't.  "The Beatles are a British rock band."  "Beatles" is a
>

Child of the sixties perhaps?
The Beatles WAS (or WERE) a British rock band  ;)


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