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To: Chuzzlewit who wrote (1300)	5/19/1998 5:46:00 AM
From: Jack Clarke	Respond to of 4711

CTC, I am even less tolerant than you in the use of medium I think the original use of medium was the compound construction: "the news media". Later the modifier "news" was dropped. At least that's the way I remember it. But I agree with your formulation. One example of a naturalized use of "medium" is when applied to fortune tellers. Several of those people are "mediums". Fowler also gives "stadiums" and "asylums" as other examples, although I personally wouldn't notice if I read "stadia" or "asyla". Jack