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[iamabee_buzz]

From the book I'm reading: "The States was only a short plane ride away. He'd stopped thinking of them as home years before," (Roberts 253

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[spunk_rock]

Yeah but
People have a habit of doing this, referring to the States as a single country, because it is a single country
But at the same time it's a bunch of states within that, so it becomes plural
But then again, we don't do the same with Canada
It's weird how this works, I don't know.

[iamabee_buzz]

yeah, i know... it's mostly just the inconsistency that annoyed me. It should be either "were" and "them," or "was" and "it."

*glares*

Usually Nora Roberts books are pretty good about that kind of mistake...I rarely find errors.

Though when I do, they tend to be glaring ones. In one book, there's an entire sentence repeated twice in a row.

[iamabee_buzz]

P.S. This book is impressing me less by the page. I have since discovered a hyphen where it shouldn't be, and an error of verb tense (a "was" that should be "were"). *sigh*

Nobody has any standards anymore.

[waitingroom]

i don't understand that was/were thing.

and i don't understand why people at extra syllables to words - like nuculear instead of nuclear and when they ad 'tate' like commentating... i don't even know if that's a real word... but there are definitely a lot of made up words out there.