On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20:35:27 -0400, Mark LaPierre <[email protected]>
wrote:
On 06/14/2013 07:19 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
I am only familiar with "formulas", and have not, until today, seen the
other form. I was under the impression that the intention was to go with
US English Spelling in the documentation, but my memory is sufficiently
poor regarding such things that I would have asked. I think that is
really the question then, do you tend towards US or UK spelling.
On 06/14/2013 05:07 PM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
On 14/06/13 18:35, Gary Schnabl wrote:
The term "helluvalot" almost always gets past automatic censoring on
forums or comment boards...
BTW, I am not a purist on English usage; you might be, though.
That's tautological, don't you think? Clearly you're not a purist and
yes, I am.
Working hard to not soil myself from laughing so hard when I see such an
exchange...
Gentle People,
English is a living and evolving language. New words, and new
applications for existing words, are developed all the time. For
instance, when did you ever hear the term "flux capacitor" used in
common English before "Back to The Future" popularized it? Same thing
applies to "going postal" and the suffix "gate" which are commonly
understood to mean violent loss of self control and the resulting
retribution, and shameful disclosure of a clandestine program of
questionable ethics, respectively.
In the US the plural of formula is formulas. When I looked up the
entymolgy of formula I found it is a Latin word whose Latin plural is
formulae. Given that very few people have ever studied Latin in the US the
plural has evolved to the usual English plural.
If I heard formulae as the plural it was probably 30 years ago by someone
30 - 40 years older than me.
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Jay Lozier
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