Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihu1m.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihu1m!gadfly From: gadfly@ihu1m.UUCP (Gadfly) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Re: The plural of pragma Message-ID: <143@ihu1m.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 23:18:45 EST Article-I.D.: ihu1m.143 Posted: Mon Dec 3 23:18:45 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 08:46:24 EST References: <476@amdahl.UUCP> <782@utastro.UUCP> <5071@duke.UUCP> <1348@ihuxq.UUCP> <5089@duke.UUCP> <166@uwai.UUCP> <1520@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 21 -- >> Other words with plurals like (pragma, pragmata) are >> adenoma, blastema, bregma, carcinoma, carcinosarcoma, chiasma... >> ..., sterigma, stigma, stoma, trauma, zygoma >> Also... >> (datum, data) >> (erratum, errata) >> Peter Montgomery Watch it. Pragma is Greek, hence the -ta plural. Datum, erratum et al. are Latin, whose neuter (-um) nouns are pluralized by -a. -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 03 Dec 84 [13 Frimaire An CXCIII] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7188 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!iwsl8!ken *** ***