doug wrote: > On 12/15/2011 01:34 PM, Graham P Davis wrote: >> For instance, it insists on "for a" instead of "fora." >> >> I've turned off "check spelling as you type" (and also "check grammar") >> but still it happens. >> >> > I can't help you there, but for your information, I researched "fora" > some time ago, and found that it is > spurious. Latin had no plural for forum, and in English, the plural is > formed normally--forums. > > --doug >
Thanks Doug, yet another spelling incongruity to wrap my mind around. However, I see my Chambers (1977) dictionary allows "fora" as well as "forums." Then again, Oxford Dictionaries <http://oxforddictionaries.com/> says, "The plural of forum is usually spelled forums; the plural fora (as in the original Latin) is chiefly used when talking about a public square in an ancient Roman city." This is making my brain hurt. Perhaps I'll give it a rest tomorrow and go and study florums and faunums. ;-) -- Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks. E-mail: change boy to man -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
