Re: virii

[David Teague <dbt@cs.wcu.edu>]

Ivar, Craig:

Good points!

Some use of Anglicized plurals instead of the Latin plurals annoys me. For
example, indexes for indices is common, but still srikes me as wrong.

I had not heard "musea" however. 

The use of media as a singular noun is another minor annoyance. The proper
singular is medium, but most use media for both singular and plural. Data
(plura)- datum(singular), but you will find datum used very sparingly.

David


On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Craig Dickson wrote:

> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:41:47 -0700
> From: Craig Dickson <crdic@pacbell.net>
> To: Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Re: virii
> 
> 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.
> 
> Craig
> 
> 


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