vestiges of gender and case in English

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3. Yes, hanged and hung are two different words.

People get hanged and other things are hung up.

People don't know about Latin plurals. I took 2 years of Latin in high school. Medicine is about 80 percent Greek and 20 percent Latin. Law is either Latin or Old French. "Mortgage" is Old French for "death grip" which is appropriate.

It's amazing how kids in law school will mangle "res ipsa loquitur" which means "The thing speaks for itself".

Criterion-singular, criteria-plural. Same with medium, datum, media, data.

I watched a youtube video where a guy said "one of the criterias"

I noticed that the British keep in the double letters from Greek as in paedophile and gynaecologist. Mount Aetna. I wonder if anyone over here spells it that way or if the Aetna Insurance company has quit using the connected letters?

Thanks for the tip about shall and will. I don't think I ever heard the term modal with respect to grammar. I know about modes in music (different scales) but that's different. I think in the law, "shall" is compulsory.