At 17:10 06/08/2016 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote:
aw, and I was going to ask about 'data'!
Philip Howard, who used to write on words for The [London] Times, had
a short chapter in one of his books entitled "Data is not what they
used to be"!
Brian Barker
On Sat, 6 Aug 2016, Brian Barker wrote:
At 16:29 06/08/2016 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote:
...how do you pluralize 'agenda'?
"Agenda" is already a plural in Latin, meaning "doings". As it needs a plural
in English, that again has to be a regular English plural: "agendas".
(Er, should we get
At 16:29 06/08/2016 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote:
...how do you pluralize 'agenda'?
"Agenda" is already a plural in Latin, meaning "doings". As it needs
a plural in English, that again has to be a regular English plural: "agendas".
(Er, should we get back to software?!)
Brian Barker
On Sat, 6 Aug 2016, Brian Barker wrote:
At 13:14 06/08/2016 -0700, Jim McLaughlin wrote:
virii
Sorry, but that's sillier than silly. If "virus" were a second declension
noun with a Latin plural (which it isn't), its plural would be "viri", not
*"virii". Latin "viri" is actually the plural
