I wasn't asking about the plural but about whether the grammar checker
allows singular verbs.
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"PeterMcC" wrote in message
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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote in
How does UK English handle the use of "staff" to mean a walking stick
or a musical staff, either of which is decidedly singular?
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Staffs or staves.
Incidentally, staves are also the strips of wood that are used as the
walls
of barrels - or they are in the UK anyway - and there is a singular,
"stave".
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