Subject-Verb agreement with compound subjects

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> wrote:
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>  
> > 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?
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> Potioncat:
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> Isn't York one the regions with its own strong accent/dialect? No, 
> wait, that's "New" York--on this side of the pond.  ;-)

Geoff:
Ah, you mean YorkSHIRE. York is the main city in the district.

Yorkshire is not the only strong regional accent. I can quote Lancashire, 
Northumberland, Cumbrian, various Welsh accents, ditto Scots, then a 
range of West Country accents without even touching the East and 
South-east...