The ratio is closer to Having a wider vocabulary so one can describe more forum the world fora them is important. No compilations of free Bitcoin sites. We are talking about plural bitcoin of bitcoin the currency, bitcoin vs bitcoins. Jocky on October 26, Um the plural usage is plural there in your quote.
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The question of is it "Three bitcoin" or "Three bitcoins" is down to local dialect imo. Xanis on October 24, , Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered. This is an archived post. LiteCoinGuy on October 24, , More often than not, there's no single simple rule or justification set in stone; and even when there appears to be one, more often than not it was invented in hindsight, to reflect actual usage. As such, it is more resistant to wild inflation and corrupt banks.
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Sad to think that just because you fora never heard of a word that anyone else who deigns use that word is somehow trying to show themselves as superior to you. Plural forms bitcoin take a further pluralization correctly or incorrectly plural called "double forum. I have 1 bitcoin". In Fora -ums is sometimes preferred. English also has the plural form datums, but only in the cartographic sense forum a reference point. Bitcoin Member Offline Activity: Plural aware that Twitter, etc.
Anon on October 26, , Micon on October 24, , Personally I've been using bitcoin as the plural. Hero Member Offline Activity: Tym's Get Rich Slow scheme: October 26, , Look out for 3rd edition! I won't ever ask for a loan nor offer any escrow service. If I do, please consider my account as hacked. Not a native speaker but: Jocky on October 26, , Interestingly the word coin itself can be both plural and singular: I dropped my coins. He inherits a lot of coin in the will. While Merriam Webster doesn't show the plural use case and Oxford does, I believe those sentences are grammatically correct in both American and British English.
So I'd say as with much related to Bitcoin: The word octopus comes from Greek and would take the plural form octopodes in Greek. My main point is this: So forums like statuses and others is a word even though we also sometimes have this other rule.
Our language seems to continually push us towards either dropping the foreign pluralization in some way or another, or reanalyzing the plural as another distinct word. So I see this confusion as the language trying to mash these words around to make them fit our language naturally. If we hadn't become so darn literate and knowledgeable in the past few centuries, I imagine these plurals would have regularized by now: The English-style plural is usually acceptable and often preferred.
When you don't know what the Latin plural is and don't have a dictionary handy, you should choose the English-style plural rather than try to guess. In English -ums is sometimes preferred. Forums or fora , gymnasiums or gymnasia , podiums or podia , but bacteria not bacteriums , phyla not phylums.
Seers are mediums but radio and television are two media. Data is the plural of datum in Latin and English. English also has the plural form datums, but only in the cartographic sense meaning a reference point. In English, purists still rail against using data and media with a singular verb.
These are instances of usages that began as mistakes but are now so common that they are arguably correct. Another example of the same evolution is agenda. In Latin and sometimes in English it is the plural of agendum meaning "a thing that needs to be done" but is now almost invariably treated as a singular in English meaning "a list or set of things that need to be done" , with the correct English plural agendas.
Plural forms that take a further pluralization correctly or incorrectly are called "double plurals. One caution--quorum is a genitive plural pronoun in Latin.
The English plural is quorums, never quora. It's not particularly unusual for a word to change from countable to uncountable as it is borrowed across languages: Similarly, as datum changed meaning from "gift" to "information", the pressure may have pushed data into a collective form just as we generally say this information and not these informations—foreign speakers don't always catch this. Regarding the repeated question regarding why websites say 'Forums' plural when you believe they mean 'Forum' singular - I would disagree.
They generally mean what they say - the plural. Most websites have multiple separate forums covering different topics. So the question is, are they correct in regarding each compartmentalised debating space as a separate forum?
I'd say that becomes a question of architecture than linguistics. If the conversation within each is separate and disconnected from the other then they are separate and multiple forums. If multiple debates go on in a single space where all can be concurrently viewed then is is a single forum. In the original meaning of the word, multiple debates may occur in a single town-square forum but where a town has multiple such squares they would be forums ok, fora , even if the same debate goes on in each.
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It depends on what the meaning of the word is , err, correct is. When it comes to languages, questions starting with why are very hard to answer. More often than not, there's no single simple rule or justification set in stone; and even when there appears to be one, more often than not it was invented in hindsight, to reflect actual usage.
It's completely and utterly impossible for all speakers of English to agree that from now on for all eternity all words that we borrow from, say, German, should be borrowed together with their German plural form. Also, see this related question: