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From: mgv@duke.UUCP (Marco G. Valtorta)
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Subject: Datum, museum, coliseum: a reply to Gordon Moffett
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Date: Fri, 9-Nov-84 08:41:04 EST
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Neither "museum" nor "coliseum" are latin words. "museum" is
a word of Greek origin and "coliseum" derives from the Latin
word "colosseus," which means huge, but it is not a Latin word.  
On the other hand, "datum" *is* a Latin word, so it makes
sense to use it the way it is used in Latin.

				Marco Valtorta