Plural of “Medium”

A quickie today, mainly a link to an interesting article, but also a comment about English. Maybe I should say a comment about linguistic change.

Our language is changing. The plural of “medium” is media, just like “datum” and “data.” But “media” is becoming a collective singular, most often referring to TV, radio, newspapers, and maybe articles on the internet, and we are starting to feel a need to use an “s” to refer to more than one medium.

So here’s an example of someone doing that:

The worst storage mediums of all time

—and a picture to whet your appetite. Are there any that you don’t recognize?

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