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I think someone on the American Dialect Society once noted that agenda used to be a plural noun. Surely, that jarred many people's ears when it made the transition. Younger people don't seem to be bothered by the plural forms homeworks and slangs. You simply cannot stop this sort of linguistic change! BB<div><br><div><div>On Oct 15, 2008, at 8:45 AM, bolstar1 wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="width: 655px; position: relative; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; "><div id="ygrp-msg" style="width: 470px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 25px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; float: left; z-index: 1; line-height: 1.22em; "><div id="ygrp-text" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Georgia; "><p style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">SIDE BAR: I've given up counting how often people misuse the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">term "phenomenon" vs. "phenomena." I cringe when I hear someone (esp.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">a scholar) say something like, "Now this is an infrequent phenomena."<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">How can we cure this
ear-pain?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Scott Nelson<br style="line-height: 1.22em; "></p></div></div></div><br><span style="color: white; "></span></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div>
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