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Nit: Phenomena is plural. The singular form is phenomenon. (Other similar words with a Greek root: lexicon/lexica, criterion/criteria, automaton/automata)
by rrr_oh_man 2y ago
Nit:
Phenomena is plural. The singular form is phenomenon.
(Other similar words with a Greek root: lexicon/lexica, criterion/criteria, automaton/automata)
- jchw 2y agoHah. While I am a native speaker, I am still American. (Thanks. I was aware of this, but I still mess it up from time to time. Same for media/medium, though not nearly as much anymore.)
- thaumasiotes 2y ago-on, plural -a, is just the ordinary second declension neuter nominative/accusative ending. It's about as common as a linguistic phenomenon can be. Etymologically, you'd expect it to apply to the physics particles named for qualities, like photon, but I don't think that's ever done.