On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:57:34 -0500, Mueen Nawaz wrote:

> It would be better to say "none of these three *is* correct".

In the US, it's "is"; in the UK, it's "are".  US English, the verb 
agreement is with "none", which is singular; in UK English, the verb 
agreement is with "three", which isn't.

Similar to the reason why in the US we say "Microsoft is", and in the UK, 
they say "Microsoft are".  UK English rules state that a corporation is a 
collection of people, so it is by definition plural.  In the US, we treat 
corporate entities as singular entities.

At least that's how it's been explained to me.

Jim

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