Pain in the English
Pain in the English

Unpacking English, Bit by Bit

A community for questioning, nitpicking, and debating the quirks and rules of the English language.

Pain in the English
Pain in the English

Unpacking English, Bit by Bit

A community for questioning, nitpicking, and debating the quirks and rules of the English language.

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jdawald

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December 4, 2009

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Curriculum Vita or Curriculum Vitae

  • December 4, 2009, 6:15pm

Rubbish. Curriculum is indeed Latin, but it is neuter. The ending "-um" indicates singular. If plural, the ending is "-a". Think of gymnasium - that is one gym, and more than one gym is gymnasia. Also data is plural, and datum is singular. I suspect that all of you do not know that there were three kinds of gender: masculine, feminine, and neuter. Data, gymnasium and curriculum are all neuter nouns.