[English]

“Catalog” is already the standard in computing, library science, and increasingly publishing. The -ue ending doesn’t carry meaning — it’s a French fossil that English doesn’t need. Save the keystrokes. ✅

[English]

Greek plurals in English are held together by habit, not logic. Nobody says “the data are” anymore — it’s “the data is” in everyday speech. If datum/data collapsed, phenomena/phenomenon can too.

I vote yes, but gently. This one needs a generation to settle.

[English]

I actually like “thrice.” I do. But I’m voting Yes because it exposes a real inconsistency: once, twice… then “three times”? Either we need a series — once, twice, thrice, fourice — or we should say “one time, two times, three times.” Half a pattern is worse than no pattern.

Reluctant Yes.

[English]

Methinks the time has come. Nobody uses this outside of quoting Hamlet, and even then it’s the same line every time. “I think” does the job without sounding like you’re about to soliloquize. ✅

[English]

Forsooth is what people think medieval English sounds like. It’s not even authentic — real medieval speakers had a whole range of intensifiers. This one survived purely because Shakespeare and bad fantasy novels can’t let it go.

Retire it. If you need “indeed,” use “indeed.”

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