-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-05-21 04:23, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 20 May 2014, Weaver wrote: > > [snip]
> Pedantic or not, I'd never treat data or media as singular. An > still worse usage, which I find even with some scientific speakers, > is to use bacteria as singular. If we are going to anglicise the > word, which I think is a defensible view, we should make the plural > to be bacteriums. And "criterions" as well, I suppose. In any event I shall continue to speak and write English the same way I was taught it from 1943 to 1955, and French as well which I learnt at the same time. Regards, Ken -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlN8sicACgkQlNlJzOkJmTe8zwCeI8lBQWc8n6SQt2Sli/wTLbVf GC8An2QTiBy7AKYp0YnsD39KUoOBfVkv =PDqT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/537cb227.7070...@teksavvy.com
