Did anyone else hear Prince Charles on Today one day this week use the 
plural "Insurance Premia"? or did I imagine it?

On Fri, 16 May 2008 16:26:44 +0100, "Spooooool" 
wrote:

>Did anyone else hear Prince Charles on Today one day this week use the 
>plural "Insurance Premia"? or did I imagine it? 
>


I heard somehere that the plural of 'stadium' can either be stadiums
or stadia.

Something to do with the Latin ending of -ium. Bloody comprehensive
education. 

Just my 2 penn'th.

"S." wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 16 May 2008 16:26:44 +0100, "Spooooool" 
> wrote:
> 
> >Did anyone else hear Prince Charles on Today one day this week use the
> >plural "Insurance Premia"? or did I imagine it?
> >
> 
> I heard somehere that the plural of 'stadium' can either be stadiums
> or stadia.
> 
> Something to do with the Latin ending of -ium. Bloody comprehensive
> education.
> 
> Just my 2 penn'th.
> 

What's the plural of 'status'?

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> What's the plural of 'status'?
>
From Using English.com: "The plural of status is not statuses or even stati. 
Like salmon and sheep, the plural of status is simply status. However, 
according to the Oxford English Dictionary these are pronounced differently: 
the 'u' in the singular is as the 'u' in datum, whereas the plural has an 'u' 
as in tune."
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In article <022f735c$0$16394$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com>, on Mon, 19 May 
2008, hungerdunger  wrote
>"Frederick Williams" <"Frederick Williams"@antispamhotmail.co.uk.invalid>
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>> What's the plural of 'status'?
>>
>From Using English.com: "The plural of status is not statuses or even stati.
>Like salmon and sheep, the plural of status is simply status. However,
>according to the Oxford English Dictionary these are pronounced differently:
>the 'u' in the singular is as the 'u' in datum, whereas the plural has an 'u'
>as in tune."

Yes, I thought it might be fifth declension when I saw the question. 
(Latin that is; fifth [IIRR] nouns in Latin do end in -us for both the 
singular and plural, but with different pronunciation, the plural indeed 
being more like "oo s".)
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hungerdunger wrote:
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> "Frederick Williams" <"Frederick Williams"@antispamhotmail.co.uk.invalid>
> wrote in message news:482FF46B.76033D6B@antispamhotmail.co.uk.invalid...
> >
> > What's the plural of 'status'?
> >
> From Using English.com: "The plural of status is not statuses or even stati.
> Like salmon and sheep, the plural of status is simply status. However,
> according to the Oxford English Dictionary these are pronounced differently:
> the 'u' in the singular is as the 'u' in datum, whereas the plural has an 'u'
> as in tune."

Ten out of ten my little pumpkin!

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>>>
>>> What's the plural of 'status'?
>>>
>>From Using English.com: "The plural of status is not statuses or even 
>>stati.
>>Like salmon and sheep, the plural of status is simply status. However,
>>according to the Oxford English Dictionary these are pronounced 
>>differently:
>>the 'u' in the singular is as the 'u' in datum, whereas the plural has an 
>>'u'
>>as in tune."
>
> Yes, I thought it might be fifth declension when I saw the question. 
> (Latin that is; fifth [IIRR] nouns in Latin do end in -us for both the 
> singular and plural, but with different pronunciation, the plural indeed 
> being more like "oo s".)


yet is it not intolerably prissy to pretend words retain their foreign 
characteristics once they are adopted into English?  We talk about an opera 
rather than insisting on an opus, we don't use the plural octopidi (sp?), 
yet a few words get subjected to these torturous un-englishisms. I'm happy 
to talk about statuses.

Spooooool wrote:
>>>> What's the plural of 'status'?
>>>> 
>>> From Using English.com: "The plural of status is not statuses or
>>> even stati.
>>> Like salmon and sheep, the plural of status is simply status.
>>> However, according to the Oxford English Dictionary these are
>>> pronounced differently:
>>> the 'u' in the singular is as the 'u' in datum, whereas the plural
>>> has an 'u'
>>> as in tune."
>> 
>> Yes, I thought it might be fifth declension when I saw the question.
>> (Latin that is; fifth [IIRR] nouns in Latin do end in -us for both
>> the singular and plural, but with different pronunciation, the
>> plural indeed being more like "oo s".)
> 
> 
> yet is it not intolerably prissy to pretend words retain their foreign
> characteristics once they are adopted into English?  We talk about an
> opera rather than insisting on an opus, we don't use the plural
> octopidi (sp?), yet a few words get subjected to these torturous
> un-englishisms. I'm happy to talk about statuses.

Fucking hell, I'm in the wrong newsgroup!

In message <g0k95q$mjs$1@aioe.org>, Spooooool  
writes
>Did anyone else hear Prince Charles on Today one day this week use the
>plural "Insurance Premia"? or did I imagine it?
>
>
Just don't say Phenomena...........


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On May 16, 4:26 pm, "Spooooool"  wrote:
> Did anyone else hear Prince Charles on Today one day this week use the
> plural "Insurance Premia"? or did I imagine it?

Do you get cover on the Civil List?  I think the question arose about
the time of the Windsor Castle fire.