re: #298 LudwigVanQuixote

Ahh I have to quibble with you.

You are technically correct of course phenomenon is the English singular used most of the time, however, phenomena while plural is commonly used interchangeably as singular and plural - like fish.

If you want to get really technical, then wouldn’t the proper plural be phenomenae?

Wrong. Simply wrong.

Criterion - criteria.
Millennium - millennia.
Phenomenon - phenomena.

Latin and Greek nouns that end in -um or -on in the singular virtually always take the plural in -a.

If “phenomena” were a singular noun (which it never is), “phenomenae” would be correct as the plural (it’s not).

I gave up on the NYT as a style guide when they started using the word “millenniums”. What’s next? “Phenomenons”?

You don’t parse Latin with Cato, and Cato won’t piss on your science. Hmmkay?

;^)