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I've never seen "musea" as the plural of "museum" before. It has started to disappear (as well as great many other words and grammatical constructs) about a generation ago. As recently as 1995, Pittsburgh Post Gazette wrote of "stadia across the country," but no longer. The word "memoranda" is disappearing as we speak. We went in the opposite direction with "agendum," however, by adopting "agenda" as singular.

I know this is a minor point, but it is surprisingly relevant: all this and much more started to disappear shortly after the abandonment of liberal education in 1950s. It is into the vacuum so created that various "artists," such as those described in the report, subsequently stepped in 1960s. And it is this vacuum that is currently being filled with multi-culturalism, teaching us that there is no wrong, that all opinions, beliefs, cultures, works of art are "equal." Sounds appealing...

To me, the Latin roots of our language are not just a source of its beauty --- it is also one of the ties that we as a people have with our Western heritage. It is the denial of Western values in our society that makes me sad to see the disappearance of Latin words from our speech.

With everything else going on in education, this is the least of my worries, however. I am more disturbed when I hear about travel agents receiving requests to organize, for fear of flying, a bus tour from California to Hawaii.