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Thread #86772   Message #1616085
Posted By: Deda
29-Nov-05 - 12:32 AM
Thread Name: BS: Grammar Police: eats shoots and leaves
Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Police: eats shoots and leaves
In Latin, "modum" would probably be a (hypothetical) 2nd declension neuter noun, and the plural of modum would then be moda, just as the plural of datum is data. If it were masculine instead of neuter it would go to "-i" in the plural -- as in radius, radii.