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  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Interesting about plurals of podium, stadium & medium...  if you look in a dictionary, both -iums and -ia are described as "correct" although as @Hostafan1 grumps, since they have their roots in Latin they should all end -ia.  Most interesting is that "mediums" means something different to me from "media"...  I don't think "media" try to contact the departed, but "mediums" certainly do.   :)
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    edited June 2022
    Interesting about plurals of podium, stadium & medium...  if you look in a dictionary, both -iums and -ia are described as "correct" although as @Hostafan1 grumps, since they have their roots in Latin they should all end -ia.  Most interesting is that "mediums" means something different to me from "media"...  I don't think "media" try to contact the departed, but "mediums" certainly do.   :)
    I think it's a prime example of " if enough folk get it wrong, often enough, it becomes accepted as correct ".

    Lots of words have different means. 
    Bow, as in arrow, bow, as in bow down, bow , front of a boat. 
    Set, as in set in stone, Set as in chess set, set as in waiting for jelly to set. 
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    "...  I don't think "media" try to contact the departed, but "mediums" certainly do.   :)
    Give them time ... 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    When there are reports in the media about mediums, things start to get confusing. :D
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    edited June 2022
    If you get hidebound by Latin and Greek etymology, you’ll be saying octopodes not octopuses and work yourself into a lather over split infinitives. I’m fine with stadiums but did scold the BBC newscaster the other day who said ‘1 in 5 households are …’ rather than is. She ignored me. I also roll my eyes on gardening forums (sic) when people confuse larva and larvae.
    Rutland, England
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    I had a great day planned in London this Saturday: Superbloom, the Garden at 120, the Becket pageant at the Guildhall, seeing the renovation of the Elizabeth Tower and then on to the Heatherwicke installation outside Buckingham Palace.

    That’s now history because yesterday I succumbed to Covid and I am in Purdah for five days, metaphorically locked in the attic. My temperature is up and I have a cough that could rattle the balls on a rhino but I’m being a brave little soldier. 🙂
    Rutland, England
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I'm pretty tolerant about folk getting the Latin wrong ... but I'm beginning to shout at Michaela Strachan when she misuses 'less' and 'fewer' 🙄

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2022
    Poor you ... have a hot toddy and some Jakeman's menthol sweeties @BenCotto

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    Aw poor you BenCotto, that's Sod's Law. If you had a day in the garden planned, working your socks off then you would have been fine. Get well soon.
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    BenCotto said:
    If you get hidebound by Latin and Greek etymology, you’ll be saying octopodes not octopuses and work yourself into a lather over split infinitives. I’m fine with stadiums but did scold the BBC newscaster the other day who said ‘1 in 5 households are …’ rather than is. She ignored me. I also roll my eyes on gardening forums (sic) when people confuse larva and larvae.

    A bit like borders and boarders @BenCotto

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