>> "Charlie Gibbs" <cgi...@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:1143.719T1415T7404704@kltpzyxm.invalid...
>>> In article
>>> <35d6be63-c4b0-4688-83e8-0e76bd3e4...@b6g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
>>> jsav...@ecn.ab.ca (Quadibloc) writes:

>>>> On Oct 27, 1:30 pm, "Charlie Gibbs" <cgi...@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:

>>>>> In article
>>>>> <dfa17ac9-0194-417a-8a21-263c141b9...@r6g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,

>>>>> jsav...@ecn.ab.ca (Quadibloc) writes:
>>>>>> On Oct 26, 10:08 am, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <l...@garlic.com> wrote:

>>>>>>>> repost from "node name" thread in another fora:

>>>>>>> Forum is the singular; fora is *plural*.

>>>>> Thank you for that datum. :-)

>>>> You're welcome. Of course, also note that in English, "data" is
>>>> treated not as a normal plural noun, but as a *substance name*,
>>>> like water or fish. Over the objections of Latin purists.

>>> That's OK, I still bristle when I see people saying "an e-mail".
>>> "E-mail" evolved from "mail", which is a collective noun; I feel
>>> that this too should be inherited.

>> Charlie, so you would have us say "a piece of e-mail", just as we would say
>> "a piece of mail"???  That sounds strange to me.  Things do *not* always
>> transfer in "whole cloth" mode.  For example, ISTM that the plural of mouse
>> (as it relates to computers) is mouses, and *not* mice.

>> --

>> numerist at aquaporin4 dot com

> Not micen?