Aug 14, 2010 · There are some situations where status may be considered countable. In those cases, the plural form can be used as statuses. MacMillan dictionary gives 4 definitions for …

May 6, 2016 · 1 Well, the Anglicized plural would indeed be statuses, although if you wanted to get fancy I suppose you could use status, which is actually the Latin plural (since it's a 4th …

May 17, 2011 · According to the OED, stat in this sense originated in pharmacology. The word stat would be written on a prescription to mean "immediately". The OED gives two citations for …

Feb 17, 2011 · Can anyone explain what the difference between status and state is when I talk about the condition or situation of an object? Here's what I got from Longman English …

Aug 23, 2015 · Here is an Ngram chart for the years 1900–2008 tracking "status quos" (blue line) versus "stati quo" (nonvisible red line) versus "statibus quibus" (nonvisible green line) versus …

Oct 27, 2014 · In addition to what @tunny wrote wrt on the platform and at the station: In the station means that you are in the building that is at the station. If there is no such building, but …

Apr 18, 2016 · And stati and viri are not good Latin anyway. The Latin plural of status is status, and virus has no recorded plural (it was generally uncountable in Latin) but since it was neuter, …

I came across the word “comparator” in the report of International Monetary Fund under the title, “Can women save Japan?” (WP/12/248) co-authored by Chad Steinberg and Masao Nakane …

Jan 20, 2011 · Yes, this is for real. No, there really is no rule. There used to be a rule in Latin, though. Etymonline explains in more detail: -ance suffix attached to verbs to form abstract …

Oct 21, 2012 · Based on this question, I wonder: as an alternative to USAian (which is very nonstandard) is it OK to use US-American to more clearly indicate "inhabitant of the USA"? …