On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 21:08, Pierre Jarillon wrote: > Le Vendredi 30 Mai 2003 21:35, Per Lindstr�m a �crit : > > > My dictionary lists plural of medium as mediums when talking about > > spiritual mediums and media when talking about things such as radio and TV. > > You have a good dictionnary who speak the truth ;-) > medium is also used for sounds between bass and treeble. > As we don't speak latin, we have not to use latin grammar ! > > The latin word is now giving two words, medium an media. This is a fork !
It has little to do with the Latin usage. There are some words for which the established English usage has come to be the Latin plural, and some for which it has come to be the anglicised plural. That's all you can really say. "Correct" English is generally simply the following of accepted usage. -- adamw
