Thursday, 5 May 2011

A troubled choice (or is it?)

Is it a paradox or a tautology that the word dilemma might have two plurals?
Until today I thought the correct description of 2 dilemmas was 'dilemmae' while harbouring (harboring?) a hope that it was actually dilemmas.

It turns out dilemmas is fine.
I've just checked.

But so is dilemmata and spelling that without a dictionary, (I mean Gooogle), might be the biggest dilemma of all.

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