On Mar 5, 2004, at 4:13 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Just to try to head this one off at the pass... I was unclear. I didn't mean to say that "celli" and "concerti" were incorrect as such, just that they are subject to the same trend towards regularization as other foreign loan-words in English, and that the irregular's days are surely numbered. Already, as you note, "celli" and "concerti" sound fussy and pretentious. Fifty years from now, they will likely sound as bizarre as "stadia" or "aquaria."
OK, consider it headed off.
By the way, "stadia" is the proper plural if you're talking about the ancient unit of length. I've seen it quite a bit in history texts. "Stadiums" would be quite wrong in that context, though admittedly it's a pretty narrow context.
mdl
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