Not happy with "The staff are happy" OR "The staff is happy"
It becomes clearer why the Grammar checker finds it difficult to be correct.
I normally use it even though it has many false positives, because it does
catch true positives on occasions.
Terry Farrell
"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?
snip
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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PeterMcC
If you feel that any of the above is incorrect,
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