Another one bites the dust?

[Wilson Gray]

Sigh! So true! One of the side-effects of desegregation in Saint Louis
was the closing of the colored movie theater, the Criterion.

-Wilson

On 9/12/07, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> At 7:17 PM -0400 9/12/07, Wilson Gray wrote:
> >I've read and occasionally heard "datum" far more often than I've read
> >or heard "criterion." In fact, in my experience, "criterion" is
> >practically extinct in non-academic speech.
> >
> >-Wilson
>
> Fortunately, it will be preserved in these parts, if only because the
> unique New Haven movie theater (the one that shows the "art films",
> as opposed to the multiplexes on the highways that show everything
> else) is the Criterion.  Of course, movie theaters have long been a
> force for preservation of good old words and names.  (Cf. the Bijou,
> the Roxy, the Odeon, the Lyric, the Majestic,...)
>
> LH
>
> >
> >On 9/12/07, James Smith <jsmithjamessmith at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> >>  Data - datum: who ever says "a datum"; rather, "a
> >>  piece of data" or even "a piece of information".
> >>  Commonly "This data...", sometimes "these data...",
> >>  almost never "this datum...".  The only case I am
> >>  familiar with where 'datum' is used regularly is in
> >>  reference to elevations: "What is the datum for this
> >>  map?", i.e., what is the base or reference elevation.
> >>
> >>
> >>  --- "Cohen, Gerald Leonard" <gcohen at UMR.EDU> wrote:
> >>
> >>  > I've often heard "a phenomena" and "a criteria,"
> >>  > and last night on the news someone spoke of "a
> >>  > paparazzi." We deal here with a tendency (not a law,
> >>  > though, of course) to shift the plural to the
> >>  > singular. I've noticed many more examples over the
> >>  > years, but they don't come to mind at the moment.
> >>  > Maybe it's time to compile them.
> >>  >
> >>  > Gerald Cohen
> >>  >
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> >>  > > Subject:           Re: Another one bites the dust?
> >>  > >
> >>  > > My chiropractor says that as well. My real estate
> >>  > agent says "an
> >>  > > addenda". I know that my real estate agent knows
> >>  > the difference; surely
> >>  > > my chiropractor does as well. BB
> >>  > >
> >>  > > Wilson Gray wrote:
> >>  > > > Heard on CSI:
> >>  > > >
> >>  > > > [Holding up a bone]: "Looks like a human
> >>  > _vertebrae_."
> >>  > > >
> >>  > >
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