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To: SunkenCiv

You’re way behind. Latin plurals are right out, and have been for years. Well, Webster’s Seventh, Ninth, and Eleventh Collegiate Dictionaries ( 1963, 1984, 2003 ) all list “millennia or millenniums,” but the various style manuals have all gone for english pluralizations, I believe.


6 posted on 08/19/2012 12:25:07 AM PDT by dr_lew
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To: dr_lew
the various style manuals have all gone for english pluralizations, I believe.

Yeah, if you're not winning give up.

It was all over when Star Trek N.G. featured a (single) character named Data. But if datum is awkward, datas is even more so.

9 posted on 08/19/2012 8:44:50 AM PDT by Bernard Marx
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Thanks dr_lew. Obviously they’ve never seen “Life of Brian”. ;’)


11 posted on 08/19/2012 6:52:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: dr_lew

Milleniums just sounds uneducated. I prefer to stick with the Latin plurals for Latin words.


14 posted on 08/20/2012 7:16:22 AM PDT by ThanhPhero (Khach hanh huong den La Vang)
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