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In article <1995Apr6.034920.26550@gallant.apple.com> orc@pell.com (Orc)
writes:

> Now, and this is the tricky part -- why would someone put a 
> recordable media like, say, a tape into a tape drive?     ^
	     ^^^^^

You wouldn't by any chance happen to mean "a recordable *medium,*"
would you?  "Media," you see, is plural; the singular form (that's
just one, for those of you from Rio Linda) is "medium."  Alternatively,
you could've circumvented the whole problem by writing "a *piece* of
recordable media."  But instead, you stepped on your shlong.  Publicly, 
and with golf shoes.  Gee, I bet you feel about an inch tall now, huh?

Why are the singular forms of words derived from the Greek, such
as "medium," "criterion," "phenomenon," and "sodomy," so difficult
for otherwise literate people to grasp?  

Okay, over to the aggressively illiterate with their obligatory 
accusations of pedantry...




Geoff

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