USAGE fora (was: NATLANG: Dutch Use of Accents)
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 9, 2004, 5:22 |
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On Thursday, July 8, 2004, at 08:10 , Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
> At 20:45 7/8/2004, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>> The English plural is "forums". The Latin plural would be "fora".
Why 'would be'? It actually is the Latin plural & always has been.
>> "Fori" is Just Plain Wrong no matter how you slice it. :)
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> It's good Italian! :)
Yep, but as the plural the equally good Italian singular _foro_.
However one looks at it, 'fori' is just plain wrong as plural of 'forum',
tho it's perfectly good as the genitive singular.
Ray
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