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In article <BxBnty.4Gn@inews.Intel.COM> dmccart@gomez.intel.com (D. J. McCarthy) writes:
>I'm not speaking for Intel in any official manner whatsoever.
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>James Jones (jejones@microware.com) wrote:
>> steibel@venus.cs.umbc.edu (David M. Steibel) writes:
>>> Therefore, with the Pentium increasing performance through the roof,
>>> people will be buying an awful lot of Pentiums.
>
>> Or is that Pentia?  Pentiae?  Assistance from people who took some Latin
>> would be much appreciated. :-)
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>	I just came across this pluralized-Pentium(tm) question earlier
>today.  Basically I think it boils down to this:  Pentium is not a
>Latin word.  If anything, it's an English word.  It should therefore
>follow standard English pluralization rules.
>
>	One Pentium.  Two Pentiums.

There is only one way to describe the Pentium (tm) processor.  If you
want the plural form...it is Pentium processors.  ALL trademarks are
adjectives and therefore only have ONE form.  The noun that the 
trademark describes can be either singular or plural as you would
normally do.

Pentium (tm) CPUs
Pentium (tm) microprocessors



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