Re: virii
On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 14:41, Craig Dickson wrote:
> Ivo Wever wrote:
>
> > Is the Latin plural of museum: musea, accepted in English BTW?
>
> I've never heard it; everyone says "museums" AFAIK.
>
> I have, however, heard the plural of "forum" said as "fora", and the
> plural of "quantum" as "quanta". And of course we've all heard "data",
> "media", and many other equivalent cases.
This is mock-latin.
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