Reference > Usage > The Columbia Guide to Standard American English
  PREVIOUS NEXT  
CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–).  The Columbia Guide to Standard American English.  1993.
 
antenna (n.)
 
 
has two semantically differentiated plurals: “the feelers of insects and crustaceans” are either antennae or antennas. In radio and television applications, the plural is always antennas. See FOREIGN PLURALS.  1
 
 
The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press.

CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
  PREVIOUS NEXT  
 
Google
Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore.
Welcome · Press · Advertising · Linking · Terms of Use · © 2008 Bartleby.com