[yaddayadda]

"...I created at University and I was proud of it in many ways.

Disney have used it..."

If she passed any English classes or graduated from the mentioned university, then she deserves a tuition refund.

[rbehrends]

She is British (it says so on her site). Using plural verbs with organizations ("the police are coming", etc.) is perfectly correct British English; same for "at university" [1].

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Writing-at-University-Phyllis-Creme/...

[__david__]

You are correct, though "the police are coming" isn't really a good example as that is proper American English, too.

[pekk]

"the police is coming" is not correct American English, so it's unclear what you have revealed by using "the police are coming".

[rbehrends]

I'm not a native speaker, and learned British English in school, American English through informal practice while living there, so I may not have picked the greatest example. :)

[xsmasher]

"Disney have used it" is correct here, in British English.

"It’s one of my favourite images I created at University" could use a [while] to my ear, but it's not so bad.

The world is a big place.

[jahabrewer]

> "Disney have used it" is correct here, in British English.

Is it even a matter of US vs. British English? I thought collective nouns could be treated as either singular or plural when conjugating the verb.

[xsmasher]

In the US, I would never say "The government have shut down" or "The team have lost." I would treat them as singular entities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_noun#Metonymic_mergi...

[thedufer]

I think it is. I don't know the rules, but I've never heard a US English speaker use an entity like "Disney" as plural. That said, "the police" is always plural, and I have no idea why that's different.

[IvyMike]

In the US, a corporation is a person in matters both legal and grammatical.

[seandougall]

As she mentions elsewhere, she is British. And "Disney have used it" is perfectly valid in the Queen's English, even if it sounds odd to us yanks.

[Millennium]

It's not correct American English, but she's not American.

The only thing I'm not sure is correct in non-American usage is the capitalized "University"; I thought they used lowercase for the generic (much in the same way we use "college" in the US). The rest, though, reflects common usage outside the US.

[muppetman]

You're just showing how bad your grasp of the English language is!

[infoman]

why the heck did you write this? It doesn't help anyone ...