Gerry <222ggg@adelphia.net.invalid> wrote:

> > But recently I learned that "the bank are pressing me for
> > repayment" is grammatical, ...
> 
> How can that be grammatically correct?  Bank is singular.

It's short for "the people at the bank are pressing me...". You don't
seriously imagine that the building itself is doing this, do you? But it
is correct to say "the bank is at the corner of the street."

> > ...so I don't feel confident in detecting
> > Americans' bad grammar anymore. :-)

I thought it was British usage, though.

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