[libreoffice-users] Re: How do I stop Calc splitting words in two?

doug wrote:

> On 12/15/2011 01:34 PM, Graham P Davis wrote:
> > For instance, it insists on "for a" instead of "fora."
> >
> > I've turned off "check spelling as you type" (and also "check grammar")
> > but still it happens.
> I can't help you there, but for your information, I researched "fora"
> some time ago, and found that it is
> spurious.  Latin had no plural for forum, and in English, the plural is
> formed normally--forums.
>
> --doug

Thanks Doug, yet another spelling incongruity to wrap my mind around. 
However, I see my Chambers (1977) dictionary allows "fora" as well as 
"forums." Then again, Oxford Dictionaries <http://oxforddictionaries.com/> 
says, "The plural of forum is usually spelled forums; the plural fora (as in 
the original Latin) is chiefly used when talking about a public square in an 
ancient Roman city."

This is making my brain hurt. Perhaps I'll give it a rest tomorrow and go 
and study florums and faunums.  ;-)

-- 
Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks. E-mail: change boy to man

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