Christian, > On Nov 18, 2025, at 10:26 PM, Christian Huitema <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 11/18/2025 2:55 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: >> Then there's the solecism of using "errata" as a singular noun. >> >> It's more than half a century since I was forced to learn Latin, but errata >> about "erratum" still annoy me. > > Having been learning Latin at about the same times, I am always amused with > the American insistence on using Latin plural for Latin words. And native > plurals for borrowed words in general. I find that very snobbish, not to > mention hostile to people learning English as a second language. Do you > expect to also master the grammar of Latin, Greek, or Arabic? That's the kind > of rules that French aristocrats stuck in the French language to make sure > mere peasants could not speak correctly. I dislike that stuff in French just > as much as in English. I am a strong partisan of erratum/erratums. Or, as > Brian suggests, just use "errors". Or "corrections".
Or perhaps better, report “errors” and then make “corrections”. We tend to use erratum for both. Bob _______________________________________________ rfc-interest mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
