"Tom Gardner" wrote in message
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"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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"Bob Engelhardt" wrote in message
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* - "media", "medium". The industry uses "media" whether they're
talking single or multiple. I was buying some locally and we were
talking about the different ones. I referred to a particular one, as in
"... this medium ..." and he corrected me: "it's 'media'". He's in the
media business, but he didn't know that the word is plural and that
there is a singular version. I let it go.

Maybe once you have two grains of a medium, you have media. But that
creates some ugly sentences. So I'll let it go, too. d8-)

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Ed Huntress


But you DIDN'T let it go...you COULDN'T let it go, could ya?

Well, shoot, I had to think about it a little bit, anyway. But thinking
wasn't very productive. So I'm done with it.

(New author for your loving wife: "James Rollins"
http://www.jamesrollins.com/ ) She may already have consumed him. Tell
her Rollins is like Clive Cussler on steroids.)

OK, thanks. I'll tell her to check it out.

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Ed Huntress