On Friday 30 May 2003 21:09, Adam Williamson wrote:
> At first I thought that too, but it doesn't hold up against the standard
> test - try changing it a bit. Imagine it's a source for footballs -
> you'd probably call it a footballs media, not a football media. I think
> it's OK. Not 100% sure, though, admittedly. I don't own a style guide,
> it'd be handy for this kind of situation I think :)

Well... I'd call a (single) source of footballs... a football medium,
and an arbitray (including, potentially, one) such sources...  football 
media... for what it's worth.  That would lead to a source of RPMs 
being an "RPM medium," and an arbitrary number of them, I would call
RPM media.

-Chuck S.


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