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Grammar pedants - help please.

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DeeGee May 2024 1:22pm, 13 May 2024 22,897 posts	Quote Pin DeeGee Not according to Merriam-Webster's website. merriam-webster.com
JCB May 2024 3:08pm, 13 May 2024 5,665 posts	Quote Pin JCB Thanks DeeGee After reading that I spent a bit of time on the spelling bee quiz: merriam-webster.com
larkim May 2024 12:52pm, 18 May 2024 24,199 posts	Quote Pin larkim This jarred when I first read it until I realised that it was the plural noun crashes belonging to the two drivers as opposed to verb relating to their single (or combined) crash. I suppose headlines rarely make good grammar though.
paulcook May 2024 12:57pm, 18 May 2024 4,843 posts	Quote Pin paulcook Headlines aren’t full sentences so don’t (necessarily) need to follow grammar rules though it helps if they make sense. But I agree names often throw me when there’s often no context.
ChrisHB May 2024 12:57pm, 18 May 2024 23,077 posts	Quote Pin ChrisHB if they'd written 'crash' we might have thought it was a collision.
Cerrertonia May 2024 2:35pm, 18 May 2024 21,132 posts	Quote Pin Cerrertonia Perhaps 'both crash' would've been clearer.
larkim May 2024 2:52pm, 18 May 2024 24,203 posts	Quote Pin larkim Or "crashes for Alonso and Perez".b
ChrisHB May 2024 5:22pm, 30 May 2024 23,083 posts	Quote Pin ChrisHB An apostrophe worth more than its weight in gold: Florida scientists use AI and virtual reality to create 3D renderings of brain formations of mice, whose neuron types are like humans’ (From the Guardian)
Cerrertonia May 2024 6:08pm, 30 May 2024 21,192 posts	Quote Pin Cerrertonia Very good.
LindsD May 2024 10:35pm, 30 May 2024 68,189 posts	Quote Pin LindsD Lovely