KJ4DIY wrote:
The correct plural form of Antenna is Antennae.
I you prefer Antennas fine I have been told recently by an Elmer that
this was the correct term.
The question here is not grammar but staying on topic for this forum.
I'm not trying to cause an argument we have different forums so
everyone can have there say.
Let’s just stay on the topics of each forum.
73's
I'm curious how you arrived at the "correctness" of antennae.
Miriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Ed., lists both plural
forms. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, Second Ed.,
explicitly states that antennae is plural for the appendages on insects,
and antennas is plural for the electromagnetic device. These different
plural usages are by far the most common in my experience. I only
occasionally see "antennae" to describe radio antennas, mostly in very
old texts or when used by an academic -- or rraa poster -- trying to
emphasize his distance from the hoi polloi.
Your reference for "correctness" didn't happen to be a zoology text, did it?
Roy Lewallen, W7EL