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Subject:Re: Specimen observed in the wild From:cewinch -at- aep -dot- com To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:52:12 -0500
Merriam Webster (www.m-w.com) has it opposite: "criterion" singular and
"criteria" plural. Hmm....
Connie Winch
Senior Technical Communicator
American Electric Power
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Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>
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Re: Specimen observed in the wild
Voitch!
What I've noticed is the people who have finally figured out the plural
of criteria. If you guess that they establish one criteria but two
criterion, you're right!
English plurals are so much fun. "Send me a mongoose. And while you are
at it, send me another."
Does that Australian university also produce the indice, the vertice,
and the matrice?
Michael West wrote:
> I've only recently noticed how many Australians with university degrees
> believe that the singular of "appendices" is "appendice".
> Is this an Australian thing or do you encounter this odd beast in the US
> as well?
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