taxons and orthography

[Thomas Lammers]

At 07:40 PM 3/8/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Jeeech.  Sir Lammers, would you say "General Motors was the largest
>company in the world", or would you say "General Motors were the largest
>company in the world"?

Hmm.
Yeah, I would go with the former.

Where's an English major when you really need one?

You know, this is something the grammarians have worked out
already.  Doesn't someone have a reference handy to cover this topic?




Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.

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Department of Biology and Microbiology
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
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Plant systematics; classification, nomenclature, evolution, and
biogeography of the Campanulaceae s. lat.
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