Subject-Verb agreement with compound subjects

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> wrote:
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> > Geoff:
> > Hear, hear. Well said, sir!
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> > The only problem now is that someone will start a discussion 
> > on whether the only relevant English  "authorities" are those 
> > who speak  UK English or US English.
> > :-(
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> Potioncat:
> You're going to let the unwashed masses decide? Oh, dear.
> 
> Never mind UK vrs US, it'll be York vrs Cockney in the UK; Rural 
> Southern vrs Urban Northern in the US---with a few other groups on 
> both sides of the pond piping in with their choices. 
> 
> Grammar and pronunciation will go out the window--erm winder.

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?