To: nickcarraway
...the official name for a new bacteria... "Bacteria" is plural.
5 posted on
02/24/2018 10:13:00 PM PST by
TChad
(Leftthink: Reality is sadly out of touch with the higher truth.)
To: TChad
Wouldn't that be bacterium in the singular?
My lowly HS education may well be incorrect.
11 posted on
02/24/2018 11:06:07 PM PST by
Thumper1960
(Trump-2020)
To: TChad
Yep - it covers all bacteria. “Bacterium” covers a more finite set of bacteria - but it seems with bacteria, there’s so dang many of them that plural works fine for most of us.
22 posted on
02/25/2018 5:15:06 AM PST by
trebb
(I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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