On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:24:40 -0700, Gerry
<222ggg@adelphia.net.invalid> belched the alphabet and kept on going
with:

>In article <1g3627s.fdkucq8gg1lcN%dame_zumari@yahoo.com>, Louise
>Bremner <dame_zumari@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> 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...".
>
>Wha...?  "The Bank" is short for the "people who work at the bank" so
>the grammar shifts to whatever the user is *really* referring to,
>rather than the word they've selected for that reference? Amazing
>logic.

You've never heard news reports from Ukland saying things like "the
government are"?