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Re:Eagle Cash by Retric on Friday January 01, 2021 @07:07AM (#25602703)
While some sources agree with you: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/mediums

Both Media and Mediums are plural forms in common usage. Thus: https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mediums has mediums variants: or media plural of medium

ex: https://www.uspto.gov/kids/MiddleSchool-HowWellSoundTravels....

And really, English just evolves over time so these kind of rules don’t actually mean anything.

Re:Eagle Cash by gioscarab on Friday January 01, 2021 @07:23AM (#25602769)
Here in Italy (that is where the word was invented in the first place) that is considered a bad common mistake. Forgetting about the etymology or misusing a word is not what I would define as "evolution". We say multi-media, mass-media ecc. for a reason, for the same reason we don't say multi-mediums or mass-mediums.
Re:Eagle Cash by gpderetta on Friday January 01, 2021 @08:26AM (#25603097)
To be pedantic, the correct grammatical rule in italian is that foregin words (including latin) are kept invariant between singular and plural, so the plural of medium would still be medium.

This rule is of course often misapplied, especially for latin words.

Re:Eagle Cash by Retric on Friday January 01, 2021 @07:50AM (#25602904)
That’s the thing, in English when enough people make a mistake it stops being a mistake.
Re:Eagle Cash by err4nt on Friday January 01, 2021 @12:44PM (#25604975)
Though English has two plural forms "media" and "mediums", are they interchangeable? If you say "media" I think of more than one medium of communication, but if you say "mediums" I think of a group of humans who engage in necromancy and talking to spirits and stuff (being a medium as a job)
Re:Eagle Cash by Retric on Friday January 01, 2021 @02:03PM (#25605719)
I believe it’s context specific. Both are in common use in acoustics or bacterial cultures, but it’s electronic media and spirit mediums.