The things that keep me up nights
So, yesterday, for my weekend job, I wrote this headline:
NDP endorse Layton’s call for Afghan pullout
and this teaser:
CP – The NDP has officially become Canada’s first major political party to call for a withdrawal of our troops from Afghanistan.
Here’s what’s bugging me. In the headline, NDP is considered plural, so we have endorse, instead of endorses. But then in the teaser, I used NDP as singular, thus the “has.”
So this is wrong. I *know* it’s wrong. And yet, if I change either, it sounds odd to my ear. And I can’t figure out why. I know. Of all the things to fret about? This doesn’t rank that high.
*sigh*





Doesn’t seem wrong to me. Notional agreement.