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From: gadfly@ihu1m.UUCP (Gadfly)
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Subject: Re: Re: The plural of pragma
Message-ID: <143@ihu1m.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 23:18:45 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  3 23:18:45 1984
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>> 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.
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