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Last I checked, most reporters at least had a college education, MOST of them in areas like journalism or English lit.
So why is it none of them can seem to correctly pluralize, singularize or tense words with Latin roots?
The plural of “memorandum” is “memoranda”, not “memorandums”. (If you have to use the Anglo/Saxon s to pluralize, at least say “memos”!)
The past tense of “plea” is “pled”, not “pleaded”.
Am I living in some ivory tower where the media has some responsibility to “get it right”?
(What’s even more scary to me is that “memoranda” and “singularize” were not in my spell checker, and that dictionary.com says “pleaded” and “memorandums” are both acceptable forms of “plea” and “memorandum”.)

And McDonalds, was it really necessary to assume that American’s are so stupid they don’t know what a pedometer is?