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3"nobody says stadia". Well, in Dutch they do. Using the same Latin root (although interestingly, the Dutch use 'stadion' - the Greek word - for the sports arena, and 'stadium' for 'era / epoch'.– FlorisCommented Jan 26, 2014 at 3:00
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1@Floris well, yes, OK, in other languages sure. I was talking about English. We say stadia (στάδια) in Greek as well.– terdonCommented Jan 26, 2014 at 15:41
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7"Nobody says stadia". It's not uncommon in the UK: see, for example, the UK Parliament, the BBC, the Daily Telegraph.– David RicherbyCommented Jan 26, 2014 at 18:03
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@DavidRicherby well yes, that'swhy I mentioned that nobody says it. I know it exists, it's just very rarely used in normal conversation which is why I said that nobody says it. Some may of course write it but, fair enough, answer edited.– terdonCommented Jan 26, 2014 at 18:28
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3@terdon I don't think this has anything to do with written versus spoken English. Anyone who writes "stadia" is going to say it, too; if it's true that the word is rarely used in spoken English, it's because people rarely need to talk about more than one stadium, not because people write "stadia" but say "stadiums".– David RicherbyCommented Jan 26, 2014 at 23:30
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