2 MARCH 1996, Page 32

Singular construction

Sir: I am one of Dot Wordsworth's regu- lars, and I mostly agree with her. But this time I side with James Cope (Letters, 24 February). Dot tells us that media has a plural form, though she doesn't tell us what it is. Mediae? Who knows?

But surely the point is that it has a singu- lar form: medium. (`The medium is the message.') If so, it must surely be the only singular noun with a singular form.

Sorry, Dot, but I think this is dotty.

Brian Crozier

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