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From: lilandbr@scn.org (Leland Bryant Ross)
Subject: Re: Bizarre error: "formulum"
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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 03:31:54 GMT
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In a previous article, jcf@world.std.com (Joseph C Fineman) says:

>lilandbr@scn.org (Leland Bryant Ross) writes:
>
>>In a previous article, jcf@world.std.com (Joseph C Fineman) says:
>
>>>    Formulum (3.9)-(3.10) mean that...
>>>
>>>It _seems_ the idea is: since (e.g.) the plural of "cranium" is
>>>"crania", the plural of "formula" must be "formulum".
>
>>In the example you cite "Formulum" appears to me to be singular; the
>>writer's grammatical-number error appears to be in the failure to add
>>-s to "mean".
>
>That seems unlikely to me.  On the face of it, the expression
>"(3.9)-(3.10)" refers not to one formula but to two successive
>formulae.  The plural verb is therefore correct.

Ooops!  He's write! ;-)

>||:  The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his rear.  :||

... but *that*'s un*kind* ... 
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