Re: NATLANG: Dutch Use of Accents

From:    "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
> On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 02:41:12PM -0400, Steg Belsky wrote:
> > I'd just like to say that i was randomly surfing the web, reading
> > forums (fora? fori?)
>
> The English plural is "forums".  The Latin plural would be "fora".
> "Fori" is Just Plain Wrong no matter how you slice it. :)
"forums" v. "fora" is one of those contrasts for me that, like
"antennas" v. "antennae", depends on the context of use, primarily
register. But I would never think of using "forums" when talking
about the layout of Roman cities. :)

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