Posts Tagged: didacticism

  • Sam Valadi—FLICKR—The Colosseum or Coliseum, also known as the Flavian Amphitheatre. It is not a stadium.

    Stadia versus stadiums

    FIFA corruption I have just updated this post from 2011. In June 2011  FIFA executives were denying corruption charges; the awarding of the 2022 FIFA Soccer World Cup to Qatar (which Australia had tried to bid for) was being questioned; and Sepp Blatter, the man in charge, was re-elected unopposed as FIFA president.  I was […]

  • The Italian Forum in Rome

    Fora or forums?

    I remember the first heard time I heard fora. It was at a conference of senior public servants. I laughed, at first thinking the speaker was being humorous but he was far too earnest. What does it mean? It is a word that replaces, what normal people, and indeed, any editor or writer, would use: forums. […]