On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 16:59, Philip Webb wrote: > the rule for English is to use Latin plurals > or go over to an English plural if the word becomes very common. > but you never take a Latin plural & then add another plural to it.
Ahhh, so naive. There's no RULES in English. Merely vague guidelines :). Some words stay with the grammatical rules of their originating language. Some don't. There's really no clear-cut guidelines as to which fall into which category. It's not as simple as popularity (media is an extremely common word in English, but retains the Latin plural form). All you can ever do in English is give a guide to current common usage. -- adamw
