Correct Singular, Correct Plural

Many use the plural of “criterion” as a singular. Bad.

Same problem with “media” and “medium.”

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The humor is because the word is self-referential.

…at least she sees the word as self-referential.

Of course the humor in this comic lies in the bad location of the phrase in the last panel. Can you tell where it should go?

Gasoline Alley does this occasionally. No lesson.

Well, these are all homonyms, though some make a distinction:

• homographs—words that have the same spelling
• homophones—words that have the same pronunciation

What she says:

They asked what the options are, not which option they preferred, so I think the correct conjunction is “and.”

I think it’s interesting that the cartoonist treated the word “family” as a plural. that’s more common in England than in the US.