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