Comments on: Criteria or Criterion? http://www.ossweb.com/criteria-or-criterion.html Writing, editing, photography, technology, and Web development for small businesspeople Thu, 17 May 2012 05:09:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Administrator http://www.ossweb.com/criteria-or-criterion.html#comment-804 Administrator Fri, 22 May 2009 19:50:21 +0000 http://www.ossweb.com/wp-blog/?p=108#comment-804 Thank you, Tim. You're right. My post does oversimplify the situation. I appreciate your taking time to point this out. Thank you, Tim. You’re right. My post does oversimplify the situation. I appreciate your taking time to point this out.

]]> By: Tim http://www.ossweb.com/criteria-or-criterion.html#comment-803 Tim Fri, 22 May 2009 11:31:35 +0000 http://www.ossweb.com/wp-blog/?p=108#comment-803 I think you'll find data and media are the respective plurals of datum and medium. Datum has fallen out of use to some degree. "Newspaper and television are two communication media", but the use of media as a singular - as in "the mass media" - is now so widespread it could be considered correct. However I think your post oversimplifies the situation. I think you’ll find data and media are the respective plurals of datum and medium.

Datum has fallen out of use to some degree. “Newspaper and television are two communication media”, but the use of media as a singular - as in “the mass media” - is now so widespread it could be considered correct.

However I think your post oversimplifies the situation.

]]>