On 5/20/2016 8:50 AM, Roger Hayter wrote:
AndyW wrote:


Bottom line: English evolves constantly and Antennas and Antennae are
both correct but one is in the ascendancy and the other is on the wane.
Neither can be said to be the correct one and neither can be said to be
wrong.

Andy
I would like to endorse that last sentence! In the UK both are
acceptable, and the time when we could dictate what is 'correct' to the
rest of the English-speaking world is long past.

I don't know about that. It *is* called "English". You can dictate...
I don't know if anyone will listen, but you can still set the example
for the rest of the world. I think it is rather expected in fact. If
the English start adopting the various perversions of the language, that
will be the ultimate abdication, no?

The French certainly aren't letting anyone as much as get a foot in the
door of telling them how to speak or write. They "officially" used to
call e-mail the wordy "communication électronique" and now use the
shorter, but still very French term, "courriel".

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Rick C