ooooh you clever people
2007-01-26 06:01:29 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
gosh you ARE all clever as well.
Or maybe Im just thick.
Joy will win. 1st one to back up the correct answer with a link, but thanks ALL of YOU. you're lovely. stay that way please
2007-01-26 06:11:54 · update #1
Criteria is the plural; the singular is criterion.
2007-01-26 06:06:34 · answer #1 · answered by Joy M 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It is probably because the singular form of those words is seldom used or heard. About the apostrophes in plurals: people are confused about the use of apostrophes do they automatically add one before final 's' whether it is needed or not (just to be on the safe side). It is taught but it's easier for most to go with the majority(needlessly adding apostrophes) than to think about it.
2016-05-24 02:25:58 · answer #2 · answered by Rebecca 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Criteria is already the plural of Criterion
2007-01-26 06:11:10 · answer #3 · answered by ninhaquelo 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
'Criteria' is already plural - duh !
The singular is 'criterion'. So you can say, "The criterion is ...." or "The criteria are...."
Mind you, one often hears quite well-educated people saying, "The criteria is ...." and I have even heard: "Criterias". Maybe, in 50 years' time, 'criteria' will have become singular and the correct plural will be 'criterias'. After all, remember that 'peas' used to be singular (spelt 'pease') and the correct plural was 'peasen'.
2007-01-26 06:45:27 · answer #4 · answered by deedsallan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Criteria is actually the plural form of Criterion.
2007-01-26 06:07:03 · answer #5 · answered by answerman 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Criterion.
Edit: I just checked the dictionary to be sure this is correct. Now I catch your trick. Criteria is plural. Got it.
2007-01-26 06:06:25 · answer #6 · answered by AMEWzing 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
'Criteria' is definitely plural and I always thought that the singular form was 'criterion', but when I saw others claim that it is 'criterium', I went to the spell checker here to see which one Yahoo recognized as a correctly spelled word.
'Criterion', as I thought, is the correct singular form. At 'criterium', the spell checker actually asked if I wanted to change it to 'criterion'.
2007-01-26 06:20:32 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The word 'criteria' is already plural (although lots of people get this wrong).
The singular is CRITERION.
2007-01-26 06:09:03 · answer #8 · answered by Rozzy 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The plural of the word criteria, is criterion.
17c from the Greek kriterion, from krites judge.
2007-01-26 06:14:27 · answer #9 · answered by spirit 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The word criteria is the plural of the word criterion.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/criteria
2007-01-26 06:07:11 · answer #10 · answered by lululaluau 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋