Hi R'Shmuel AMV"SH,
*obscenities
Regards,
David
On 2022-06-08 06:35, Seymour J Metz wrote:
This abuse of latin-derived plurals leads to such obsenities as "piece of data" where
"datum" would suffice and "medias".
"Why can't the English learn to speak?";was that in Pygmalian, or added for My
Fair Lady?
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I heard that one on a radio advertisement the other day, something like,
"All your payroll needs in a single software."
Hurts my ears :)
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On 6/7/2022 3:17 PM, Gord Tomlin wrote:
A related pet peeve: "a software". Nobody but nobody says "a hardware".
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