Thread: When did ignorance overcome education, for the correct plural is, "antennae"?
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Old May 20th 16, 06:51 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
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Default When did ignorance overcome education, for the correct plural is,"antennae"?
On 5/20/2016 12:51 PM, wrote:
gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339 wrote:
"Mike Ross" wrote in message
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On Thursday, October 8, 2015 at 8:28:38 AM UTC-4, gareth wrote:
"joe" wrote in message
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gareth wrote:
I have in my possession a book entitled, "Antennae", published in 1942
by a lecturer to both King's College, London, and also to various Brit
government
establishments.
At some point since then, the ignorance of either engineers or of
Yanks
has tried
to pass off, "Antennas" as the plural.
If we pride ourselves on the exactness of our principles, then it is
high
time to correct this glaring error by the Yanks.
(Book being studied avidly, although with some necessary revision
ov vector field theory; div, curl and grad, anyone?)
From an online dictionary:
I guess that it would be a fair assumption, bearing in mind the
development
of
computers and, much later, the Internet, that your online dictionaries
originated
several decades after 1942, and long after the ignoramuses' error arose?
Um, wouldn't that be "ignorami"??

Ignoramus is the 1st person plural of a verb, which has subsequently
been adopted as a noun in English. However, "antennae" was correct
English in 1942, as described above, so, as was said above,

So was kilocycles and micro-micro farads.

Things change; get over it.

Hmmm, I think you mean "So *were* kilocycles and micro-micro farads."

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