Talk:pandemonium

Tea room discussion
Just wondering... Is there a plural of pandemonium? And what is it? --88.104.232.58 18:29, 14 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes. The more common is the "regular" plural pandemoniums. Less common is pandemonia, which mimics the Greek plural. DCDuring TALK 18:39, 14 June 2008 (UTC)


 * No, that mimics the Latin plural. Greek nouns do not end in -um.  However, the noun is almost never plural. --EncycloPetey 21:59, 14 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I, um, misremembered. Surprisingly, pandemoniums and pandemonia combined occur in b.g.c. about 910 times, not much less than half as often as pandemonium at 1880. DCDuring TALK 22:25, 14 June 2008 (UTC)


 * On looking at the quotes pulled up for pandemoniums:, I find that there are at least two senses not covered in our current entry at pandemonium:. One sense appears to pertain to functioning of the mind in psychology (possibly something like a seizure), and the other is a 19th century use in America that seems to refer to a physical object, but I can't quite figure out the meaning. --EncycloPetey 00:33, 15 June 2008 (UTC)