In article <dudleyd-200594142731 at dom022.dom.aa.wl.com> dudleyd at aa.wl.com (Dave
Dudley) writes:
>In article <2ri6nc$8ur at threed.uchc.edu>, rajan at neuron.uchc.edu (T. V.
>Rajan, M.D., Ph.D.) wrote:
>>> I have always wondered why immunologists say media when they mean
>> medium, as in "I added 10 ml of cultured 'media'" ?
>>'Media' is the plural of 'medium'.
>Which is correct from the latin origin. Yet it doesn't explain when talking
about 10 ml of ONE (1, singular) the plural (more than one, 1) is used. IMHO
the use of media is grammatically correct when talking about two (2) different
(!) media (sic!)
As if any immunologist would care...
Michael R Schuppenhauer
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
