Ed Huntress wrote:

"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-)

--
Ed Huntress




Media is a place in Pennsylvania.

Medium is how I like my steak done.


Grit is what is in the blaster cabinet.

Grits are what they eat in the south.



John