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Originally Posted by Hitch
This entire discussion is highly reminiscent of the heated debate (amongst pedants) about "better than me/I." LOL!
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This reminds me of a
Grammar Girl podcast that I listened to a while ago. Apparently, the problem is that
than can be both a conjunction and preposition. I.e., both sides can technically claim that they're right. (For more information see the transcript that I linked to.)
As for the OP's question, if you search for "one in six boys are" with Google, you get about three times as many hits than for "one in six boys is," which doesn't really prove anything, after all, you get about 25 million hits for "recieve," which still hasn't been accepted as an alternative spelling of "receive."
