It had to happen
sagehen
sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM
Wed Oct 12 15:22:39 UTC 2005
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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."
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>OK, keep an eye (or ie) out now for all the memorandae that these agendae
>ought to generate.
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>Michael McKernan
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No doubt the mediae will be passing on more datae on phenomenae of this kind.
AM
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