Invented Pluralities

When I learned one piece of data was datum, and that syllabi is the plural of syllabus, things changed. I began to further develop the grammatical world with invented pluralities. When my friend Nermeen would tell me about recent EMT calls she’d gone on, I would interrupt her each time she said ambulances, correcting her - “it’s ambuli.” Eventually she picked up on the new grammatical rules her middle school teacher surely had forgotten. Alec, too, knows that a group of female waitstaff is referred to as “waitri” instead of the obsolete term "waitresses". I have begun a linguistic revolution.