Talk:pandemonium

Tea room discussion

Note: the below discussion was moved from the Wiktionary:Tea room.

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 (deprecated template usage) pandemoniums, I find that there are at least two senses not covered in our current entry at (deprecated template usage) 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)