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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (326)	1/3/1998 8:08:00 AM
From: Jack Clarke	Respond to of 4711

MrB, You bring up (perhaps without meaning to) a grammatical point in your sentence: I like getting massages from mediums, We have talked about Latin and Greek plurals, and that how some have been "naturalized" (asylums, stadiums) and others still require the Latin or Greek plural form (datum/data, symposium/symposia). I realize now that medium has a naturalized and an unnaturalized form, depending upon its meaning: medium, as in a news medium, is unnaturalized. Plural = media. "The media are biased politically." medium, as in those who tell fortunes, is naturalized. Plural = mediums. "Those who go to mediums are wasting their money." Interesting, huh? Jack