Are and Is

[jonny jeez]

Just catching snippets of the X Factor tonight as Ed Sheran may be playing live . They keep saying IS instead of ARE and its pissing me off .
I'm sure i'm right but i'm a carpenter not in charge of a national tv show going out to millions of people .
The winner IS ...
The winners IS .... Thats wrong innit ? Should be winners ARE ....

If that winds you up, wait til you get to the "FINAL"...which is the only final I know of where no one wins...but gets a chance to go through to....you've guessed it...another Final !!!

I really dislike X Factor, it winds me up ...when I watch every single episode.

 

[jonny jeez]

so is it "the yolk of an egg are white" or "the yolk of an egg is white"

That's just naughty!

 

[RichardB]

HA HA HA HA!

Walked right into that one!

 

[winjim]

Agendum is/ agenda are.

The [list of] agenda is.

 

[Profpointy]

Walked right into that one!

I thank you !

 

[Dayvo]

Walked right into that one!

Yep, you've got egg on your face!

 

[User482]

The [list of] agenda is.

...or we could forget the Latin and use English as it is commonly understood.

 

[robjh]

I can feel a panino/espressi controversy coming on......

 

[User482]

I can feel a panino/espressi controversy coming on......

Panini's, surely.

 

[winjim]

...or we could forget the Latin and use English as it is commonly understood.

In real life yes of course. However a pointless online discussion is another matter entirely.

 

[Brains]

Is IS isolated ? or Are IS isolated ?

 

[Tim Hall]

Panini's, surely.

A few weeks ago, the handwritten sign in Waitrose apologising for the lack of sandwiche's, toastie's and panini's had been lovingly corrected, presumably by a customer. Gone were the errant apostrophes, gone was the unwanted "s" at the end of panini.

(There's a tweet somewhere, overheard in Waitrose:"Daddy, does lego have a silent T, like merlot?)

 

[RichardB]

A few weeks ago, the handwritten sign in Waitrose apologising for the lack of sandwiche's, toastie's and panini's had been lovingly corrected, presumably by a customer. Gone were the errant apostrophes, gone was the unwanted "s" at the end of panini.

(There's a tweet somewhere, overheard in Waitrose:"Daddy, does lego have a silent T, like merlot?)

Waitro'se, surely?

 

[Profpointy]

A few weeks ago, the handwritten sign in Waitrose apologising for the lack of sandwiche's, toastie's and panini's had been lovingly corrected, presumably by a customer. Gone were the errant apostrophes, gone was the unwanted "s" at the end of panini.

(There's a tweet somewhere, overheard in Waitrose:"Daddy, does lego have a silent T, like merlot?)

there was a nice tale, I think recounted here, where someone finally couldn't stop themselves and fixed a "grocer's" apostrophe on a blackboard, only to hear another customer whisper "thank you" under their breath.

 

[Profpointy]

I can feel a panino/espressi controversy coming on......

the one I like, plagarised from this forum, is the chap going into a bar and ordering a martinus. "don't you mean a martini?". "If I'd wanted a double, I'd have asked for one"