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Re: Players' Contract Statuses 2011
Not true. My gramatical correctness, even during late night pub duscussions is legned.

Hate to be a pedant (Ok, I love it), but the reason the English plural is "status" is that the original Latin plural is also "status".
[warning: explanatory dorkiness begins] Latin has five "declensions", or ways that noun and adjectives change to make plurals, etc. (This is one reason why Latin is a bastard to learn). Only the second declension makes the plural with "-i" (e.g. alumnus/alumni). "Status", although it looks like a second declension noun, is actually fourth declension, so the plural is written the same - in Latin, though, you'd pronounce the original "status" but the plural "statoos", and dictionaries will put a little thing over the "u" in the plural to show that it's long. This is why the Americans started writing "statuses" and "censuses". But let's not pick on them - we've all said "agendas" or "curriculums" or "a phenomena", or something like that at some point in our lives[Dorkiness ends]
Not true. My gramatical correctness, even during late night pub duscussions is legned.





