[Past Your Eyes]

"...while his Army unit are away"????? Good grief, whatever happened to the Queen's English?

[Izzy Dunne]

whatever happened to the Queen's English?

She's keeping it to herself these days.

[RipSawyer]

“...while his Army unit are away”????? Good grief, whatever happened to the Queen’s English?

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Not considered important now, it detracts from the desired hysteria over gorebull warming!

[TomB]

That is the Queen's English.

Collective nouns can take the plural verb form when the emphasis is on the body as a whole.

[ZinGirl]

and this one:

has now bee banned from

must be "Quee's" English?

(snort)

[aruanan]

"...while his Army unit are away"????? Good grief, whatever happened to the Queen's English?

That is proper English in English English. Look it up. A collective noun has a singular form but takes a plural verb.

[BfloGuy]

"...while his Army unit are away"????? Good grief, whatever happened to the Queen's English?

That's pretty standard British usage. A noun that refers to more than one person takes the plural form of the verb. I don't care for it, but that's what they do.

[Burkean]

Here’s a pretty good explanation of the vagaries of collective nouns:

http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/collectivenoun.htm