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Chit Chat
Jul 3, 2015 -- 6:42PM, MisterBadger wrote:
not all "ums" follow the rule... I'm fairly certain that, among others, "stadiums" is correct as opposed to "stadia". I'm not sure what the criterion are though
"amongst" ... hth
With Stadium have heard stadia used quite a lot... even by football commentators, although either is valid.
or
"I'm not sure what the criteria are ..."
Both "amongst" and "whilst" are poncey and archaic. Their use instead of "among" or "while" is restricted to estate agents. Hth.
A stadion in ancient Greece was a length equal to a furlong and the distance of races alongside which spectators watched. Hence the adoption of its Latin form stadium to mean the building in which you watch sports.
The plural of stadion or stadium is indeed stadia (like criterion/criteria), but the English word isn't really referring to the same thing as the Greek word. In effect it's a new English word, so stadiums ought to be the correct plural. I agree with Mister Badger on this one.
Ultimatum is the neuter singular of the Latin adjective ultimatus, meaning last (thing), and the neuter plural is indeed ultimata, so I can see why that could be the plural of the English word.
But it still sounds poncey to me.
or
"I'm not sure what the criteria are ..."
in the net
Unfortunately it's been going on for so long, that it's another negative example of "Language Evolvement"!
The t was added by the French.
