• From: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@m...>
• To: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>, fotios@a..., xml-dev@l...
• Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:22:07 -0700

After watching the pronunciation of "Linux" become lost before most
people knew what it was, I amn't going to be the one to fight against
the tide for a particular use of the language, especially when Webster's
has many thoughtless omissions that really should be considered proper
English.

I wonder what our colleagues in Beijing think of this debate anyway?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@t...]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 3:49 PM
> To: fotios@a...; xml-dev@l...
> Subject: RE: Newbie
> 
> At 10:32 PM 27/06/01 +0100, Fotios wrote:
> >The plural of "schema" *is* "schemata".
> 
> Both that and "schemas" are in wide use among literate
> people.  We kicked this around a couple years ago and
> decided that two-syllables were preferable in
> principle to three assuming semantic equivalence. -Tim
> 
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