It had to happen
Michael McKernan
mckernan at LOCALNET.COM
Wed Oct 12 02:54:12 UTC 2005
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>Poster: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
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>I've just heard "agenda," historically already a Latin plural,
>construed as a new pseudo-Latin plural, "agendae," i.e. with the final
>syllable pronounced as English "die."
OK, keep an eye (or ie) out now for all the memorandae that these agendae
ought to generate.
Michael McKernan
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