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[susanelizabethjonesart]

It's here! It's here! Finally approved and live, my latest eBook.... The Downton Abbey Lexicon Primer: For the Curious American Mind of a British Costume Drama Addict. Free for download on January 5, 2020, only. Please take a look and share with all your Downton Abbey loving friends. I watched the series and motion picture with the Closed Caption option, notebook and pen in hand, and jotted down every word, phrase, idiom and foreign language word, looked up the definition, and made a glossary. Additionally, there is an appendix of the British Aristocracy line in order, including wives, sons and daughters. And for fun, I've added an appendix listing all my favorite historic costume dramas both on film and TV. A paperback book is available on Amazon, too, featuring a palette knife painting I created many years ago of the Crawley sisters at the garden party that ends the first season. It's fun if you are a fellow Downton fan, word geek, or history lover. Take a look! Simply go to Amazon.com and type Susan Elizabeth Jones in the search bar to find it. I’ll also add a link in my profile. Remember, it is FREE on January 5. . . #downtonabbey #downtonabbeymovie #downton #historicalfiction #costumedrama #freegiveaway #lexicon #wordgeek #wordsmith #lordgrantham #britisharistocracy #20thcentury #wwi (at Ripon, North Yorkshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/B63t8g5nXI-/?igshid=agaitowg505f

[kcsplace]

3, 15 and 28 for the fic readers asks, please 😊

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What is your favorite all-time fic? That’s tough but I think the one I’d have to say is The Student Prince by Fayjay in the Merthur fandom.  It’s eighteen miles long and so well plotted and every character is deliberate and well developed and it’s so good and the audio of it??? FRENCH KISS PERFECTION

15- What makes you pick up a fic, what makes it sound interesting?

Oh god, I ask myself that all the time.  Why do some fics make me stop and open them, why are others just an automatic skip? I think part of it is if the summary actually tells me something about the fic, not just some obscure poetic line or the like.  that drives me nuts on published books and does it with fic too. I want to know a bit about the plot.  Of course I always have my favoured tropes so I’ll always check the tags and tbh if its got MCD its an automatic skip, I like a happy ending.  You can put me through the wringer and angst me up the wazoo so long as everyone is happy at the end and it’s not just torture porn for the sake of it.  Fix-its, first times, there was only one bed...that’s pretty much a ‘why hello little fic, let me open you in a new tab’ kinda deal for me

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Who are your favorite fanfiction author(s)?

oh come on, the mind totally blanks when people ask my favourite anythings... uh a not remotely complete list

Fayjay, Indehed, Pepe, Leslie_Knope, Wordgeek, Slashscribe, Kesterpan, Ellenscult, Xanthe, LadyRa, Kimimela, Leupagus, sirona, osointircate...

there’s dozens more I just can’t remember them all!!

[afairytaleinprogress81-blog]

I. Love. This. #milkandhoney #wordsarelife #iwriteinmyownbooks #rupikaur #womenempoweringwomen #womenicallsisters @rupikaur_ I’m kind of obsessed with your words right now #wordgeek #poetry #sisterhood #feminist

[shazyhx]

#words #wordgeek #wordporn #saudade #portuguese #photography #wanderlust #traveler #travel #melancholia #forest #globetrotter #globalnomad

[sylvianyc]

When having watched a specific episode of Criminal Minds comes in handy = the word of the day. Goodnight! #Dictionary.Com #WordOfTheDay #iPhone7 #iPhoneWidget #CriminalMinds #Zugzwang #WordLover #WordGeek #Wednesday #NYC

[ideasmithy]

#Repost @allvishal ・・・ Found this lodged in my shoe when I got home. #nailedit I guess? #friend #friends #shoe #pun #wordgeek #words #wordplay #nail #walk

[libbying]

Love the geeky language/impact analysis of the opening title crawls... 

[lisaannejenkins]

Probably one of the loveliest paragraphs ever written ( in my opinion anyway) I just love 'well designed wood framed huts built by slumming architects' From 'Jolly Lad' John Doran's new book. Out on Strange Attractor Press #johndoran #thequietus #tQ #wordgeek #books #literature

[bowlofprecious]

Brought this home from office because I'm determined to have a chill moment to read through it for pleasure. #grammargeek #wordgeek

[shazyhx]

So here you are too foreign for home too foreign for here.  Never enough for both. Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Questions for Ada #ijeomaumebinyuo #QuestionsforAda #expatriate #expat #poem #wanderlust #fernweh #photography #foreign #neverenough #toolittleortoomuch #goodisnotenough #wordgeek #wordporn #globalnomad #traveler #neversettle #travel #globetrotter #life #lifeexplored #insearchofsunrise #soulsearching #meaningoflife

[pointless--nostalgia]

everyone should use this word always

[catherineedwardblog]

#WordOfTheWeek #WordOfTheDay #WordGeek #WordNerd #BookNerd #BookWorm #Bibliophile #BookLover #WordLover

[walnuthulls]

Those pesky plurals (Media/medium Data/datum)

For an etymological discussion I'm having (skip unless you're a word-geek):

TL;DR - They are originally in English from Latin and the plural/singular are as @hubbit outlines. However, the Latin plural forms, especially in particular usages, have been used by themselves so much that for quite a while they have been treated as singular in English.

  Media/medium Data/datum 

From the OED

Medium

Pronunciation:  Brit. /ˈmiːdɪəm/ , U.S. /ˈmidiəm/

Forms:  15 mediam, 15– medium, 19– media. Plural 16 18– media, 16– mediums.

Etymology:  < classical Latin medium middle, centre, midst, intermediate course, intermediary, in post-classical Latin also means (frequently from the 12th cent. in British sources, usually plural), middle term of a syllogism (c1250, c1380 in British sources), intervening substance (a1446 in a British source), use as noun of neuter of medius middle, central, intervening, intermediate, moderate, middling < the Indo-European base of mid adj. Compare Middle French, French médium middle term (a1590), intervening substance (1643), spiritual medium (1853: see sense A. 6b). With sense A. 1 compare post-classical Latin medium arithmeticum (from a1450 in British sources). With the phrase through the medium of compare post-classical Latin per medium (from 13th cent. in British sources).

The plural form media is the regular Latin plural. An Anglicized plural mediums is attested from the 17th cent. and is particularly common for concrete entities: see especially senses A. 6, A. 5c, A. 7, A. 9, A. 10. Free variation between these two forms is present in most of the senses in modern English with the exception of sense A. 6b where the plural is almost always mediums (although see also quot. 1928 at sense A. 6b).

 From the plural form media in sense A. 4d a new singular has arisen: see media n.2

****I think this might be what @Adm_Hawthorne is talking about.

media n.2 leads to:

Etymology:  < media, plural of medium n. 4d. Compare mass media n.

The use of media with singular concord and as a singular form with a plural in -s have both been regarded by some as nonstandard and objectionable. Compare:

1966   K. Amis in New Statesman 14 Jan. 51/3   The treatment of media as a singular noun..is spreading into the upper cultural strata.

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   1. The main means of mass communication, esp. newspapers, radio, and television, regarded collectively; the reporters, journalists, etc., working for organizations engaged in such communication. Also, as a count noun: a particular means of mass communication. 

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Data:

           Brit. /ˈdeɪtə/ , /ˈdɑːtə/ , U.S. /ˈdædə/ , /ˈdeɪdə/

Etymology:  < classical Latin data, plural of datum datum n. Compare earlier datum n. and also the foreign-language parallels cited at that entry.

The use of data as a mass noun became increasingly common from the middle of the 20th cent., probably partly popularized by its use in computing contexts, in which it is now generally considered standard (compare sense 2b and the recent uses cited at datum n. 1b, some of which are ambiguous as to grammatical number). However, in general and scientific contexts it is still sometimes regarded as objectionable. Compare the plural uses cited at datum n. and the following:

1949   Nature 19 Nov. 890/1   ‘Data’ was a plural noun; for literate English writers it still is, and I contend that it always should be.

1978   P. Howard Weasel Words xiii. 63   Data stubbornly persists in trying to become an English singular.

1990   Psychologist 13 31/1   A staggeringly large number of psychologists fail to appreciate that ‘data’ should be followed by the plural form of the verb.

  Datum:

           Brit. /ˈdeɪtəm/ , /ˈdɑːtəm/ , U.S. /ˈdædəm/ , /ˈdeɪdəm/

Inflections:   Plural data /ˈdeɪtə/ , (in sense 3) datums.

Etymology:  < classical Latin datum that which is given, present, use as noun of neuter past participle of dare to give < the same Indo-European base as Sanskrit dadāmi (stem dā-), ancient Greek δίδωμι, both reduplicated presents with sense ‘I give’. Compare German Datum piece of information (1631, earliest with Latin case endings, now usually in plural form Daten).

The plural form data reflects the Latin plural; within English, this has given rise to a new singular and collective noun: see data n. and discussion at that entry.

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Bonus Graffiti/graffito

The first usages in English are all graffiti in the plural except for an art history book (I'd argue it could be using the Italian word for lack of an English one without the word really being in use in English conversation)

graffito, n.

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Pronunciation:  /ɡrafˈfito/ /ɡrəˈfiːtəʊ/

Forms:  Pl. graffiti /ɡrafˈfiti/ /ɡrəˈfiːtiː/ .

Etymology:  < Italian graffito, < graffio a scratch.

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    A drawing or writing scratched on a wall or other surface; a scribbling on an ancient wall, as those at Pompeii and Rome. Also, a method of decoration in which designs are produced by scratches through a superficial layer of plaster, glazing, etc., revealing a ground of different colour; chiefly attrib., as in graffito-decoration, -pottery, -ware.

1851   D. Wilson Archaeol. & Prehist. Ann. Scotl. (1863) II. iv. iv. 286   The slight scratching of many of the Maeshowe Runes, and the consequent irregularity and want of precision in the forms..of what, it must be remembered, are mere graffiti.

1873   J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets xi. 242   Even the Graffiti of Pompeii have scarcely more power to reconstruct the past and summon as in dreams the voices and the forms of long since buried men.

1873   F. B. Palliser tr. A. Jacquemart Hist. Ceramic Art 619 Index,   Graffito decoration.

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1877   A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile xxi. 653   Visited by crowds of early travellers, who have as usual left their neatly-scribbled graffiti on the walls.

1886   E. Dowden Life Shelley I. v. 179   She sang pleasantly; and could scribble such graffiti as may be found in school-girls' copy-books.

[misskelleyohh]

I am TOO excited to start using this book #wordgeek (Taken with Instagram at Barnes & Noble)

[voluptionary-blog-blog]

Always wondered if there was a word for this. Hm, good to know. #words #geek #wordgeek (Taken with instagram)