Subject-Verb agreement with compound subjects

[potioncat]

> Geoff:
> They don't have to be unwashed to speak UK English. As for the 
others, well......
> 
> Anyway, what's York got to do with it?


Potioncat:

Isn't York one the regions with its own strong accent/dialect? No, 
wait, that's "New" York--on this side of the pond.  ;-)


As interesting as this thread is, a good deal of it is over my head.

In another post CJ was talking about teachers trying to unlearn* bad 
speaking patterns in their students. I can remember as well that school 
English was almost like a foreign language. Never mind that my mother 
had been trying to correct many of the same errors. I think she had 
picked up many of the local speech patterns so she would fit in better. 
She had come from New York to the rural South.

*learn for teach was a common switch of words, as I recall.