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If I was in charge of the B3ta fatwa department, we wouldn't be hearing too much from Simply Red in the future. Who's on your musical shit list and why?

(, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 12:00)
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Stadiums is also correct
Stadium

n. pl. sta·di·ums or sta·di·a (-d-)
1. A large, usually open structure for sports events with tiered seating for spectators.
2. A course on which foot races were held in ancient Greece, usually semicircular and having tiers of seats for spectators.
3. An ancient Greek measure of distance, based on the length of such a course and equal to about 185 meters (607 feet).
4. Medicine A stage or period in the course of a disease.
5. Biology A stage in the development or life history of an organism.
(, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 18:06, 1 reply)
but is that only because
People have been getting it wrong for so long that it has become recognised as an alternative spelling?
(, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 19:28, closed)
Three points:
1) We speak English, not Latin. Otherwise we'd have to use a different ending for motion towards, in the subjunctive case or on a wet Wednesday, and all the other pointless inflections that our language has, thankfully, been abandoning for some centuries now.

2) "Wrong" implies that there is a prescriptive "Right" way. A dubious concept, at best, because:

3) That's how language evolves

For example, the fruit we call an "Orange" was originally a "Norange" -- from the Spanish word. "A Norange" sounded to most people like "An Orange", so that's what it became. By your argument, "An Orange" is Wrong.

Similarly, "Connection" used to be spelled "Connexion", but it was more consistent and simpler to use "Connect" + "ion".

Here endeth the lesson.
(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 9:35, closed)

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