Re: Adopting a plural
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 7, 2004, 19:51 |
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On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 03:30:40PM -0400, Jeffrey Henning wrote:
> In fact, you can say "the first agendum". American Heritage defines
> 'agendum' as an item on a list, not the list itself:
Right. That's the origin of the word "agenda" - it was originally the plural of
"agendum". More than one list item = a list. But "agendum" has
disappeared from English usage and "agenda" has come to be construed as
singular.
-Marcos