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 A Court of Appeal judge is undoubtedly a guardian of the Queen’s English, and far be it from this snitty little rogue to have an opinion (I mean, can you imagine?), but [[Lord Justice Waller]]’s habit of referring to a corporation as if it were<ref>Note: [[subjunctive]]!</ref> a ''crowd'', and therefore a [[plural]] is ''an abomination''.
-It is galling enough when members of the internet do this, to their favourite [[Nigel molesworth|foopball]] teams or pop bands, where there is at least an argument, however misguided, that the whole is no more than the sum of its members, but a [[corporation]], under his honour’s own freaking ''law'', is ''its own [[legal personality]]''. It is — must be, at a profoundly [[ontological]] level — a ''singular'' entity.
+It is galling enough when members of the internet do this, to their favourite [[Nigel molesworth|foopball]] teams or pop bands, where there is at least an argument, however misguided, that the whole is no more than the collection of its members, but a [[corporation]], under his honour’s own freaking ''law'', is ''its own [[legal personality]]''. It is — must be, at a profoundly [[ontological]] level — a ''singular'' entity.
-And nor can this be put down to [[wokeness]]: firstly, it was 1998, so ''everyone'' was racist, misogynist and cis-biased etc. etc. etc. — i.e., ''no-one'' was [[woke]], and secondly, in any case, “bank” takes the neuter pronoun [[it]], so would have been perfectly [[woke]] in the singular anyway.
+And nor can we put this down to [[wokeness]]: firstly, it was 1998, so ''everyone'' was racist, misogynist and cis-biased etc. etc. etc. — i.e., ''no-one'' was [[woke]] — and secondly, in any case, “bank” takes the neuter pronoun “[[it]]”, so would have been perfectly [[woke]] in the [[singular]] anyway.
-I have re-rendered the pronouns as they should be.<ref>Yes: like most commercials lawyers I have some kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder, but unusually, also I have appalling attention to detail. This is a cross I have had to bear my whole life.</ref>
+I have re-rendered the Lord Justice’s pronouns as, in my opinion, they ''should'' be.<ref>Yes: like most commercials lawyers I have some kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder, but unusually, also I have appalling attention to detail. This is a cross I have had to bear my whole life.</ref>
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