The Last Homely House
Middle-Earth => Bag End => Topic started by: Disco Stu on July 12, 2009, 02:10:15 PM
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for anyone, who actually doesn´t know these words. here is an excerpt from wikipedia:
An erratum or corrigendum (plurals: errata, corrigenda) is a correction of a book.
what i want to point at, is the correct declension of the word erratum. in this forum there are the wildest forms of this word. i start thinking that it is sort of sport to torture this poor word. i would appreciate it, if at least a few of you learn accept the correct forms.
(erratum is a latin word, thus its plural is not formed with an s (although it may be hard).)
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:-k What about Spaghetti? "i" builds the plural in italy, other languages call them spaghettis in plural. Further intercultural fauxpas are the german "Frisör", the english "doppelgängers" and the french "la Volkswagen".
But you are absolutely right with errata.