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"Manchester United" is a contraction of "Manchester United Football Club"
by rahoulb 16y ago
"Manchester United" is a contraction of "Manchester United Football Club"
- jrockway 16y agoRight, but en_UK dictates that this is plural, and hence you say "Manchester United are going to win."
- smcl 16y agoAnd "Manchester United Football Club is going to win the Premiership" sounds to me as incorrect as "Manchester United is going to win the Premiership" No matter what justification you use, "<football team> is..." will sound wrong to english speakers in the UK, Aus, NZ and a couple of other places (bar the person higher up in this thread who says they never notice it :))