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Nit pick on the title: shouldn't this be "Slack has blocked…" rather than "Slack have blocked"? Is Slack plural?

• sixhobbits 7y ago
  Both are acceptable as you can think of a company as a singular entity or as a group or many parts. There is a nice analysis at [0] [0] https://www.hallaminternet.com/google-trends-can-settle-grammatical-debates/ https://www.hallaminternet.com/google-trends-can-settle-gram...
  • Angostura 7y ago
    Typically, in formal English, companies are singular.
    • deleted 7y ago
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    • chadlavi 7y ago
      Only in US. In the rest of the Anglophone world, it's always plural.
• helipad 7y ago
  Depends in which country you speak English :) Looks like original Tweeter is Scottish
  • not2b 7y ago
    American: has UK: have. Collective nouns (teams, companies, groups) are grammatically singular in the US and plural in the UK.
    • ashton314 7y ago
      Woah. Mind blown. Thanks for explaining this!
• _-___________-_ 7y ago
  A company is a group of people working together, so it seems fine to me.
  • wildrhythms 7y ago
    This is all in fun, but you've contradicted yourself. :) >A company The company is singular. It is one company. "A company is" vs. "A company are"
    • _-___________-_ 7y ago
      The word "company" can be singular while the name of a particular company is not, no?