[Tom Vaught]

Minutia

Proper Spelling and meaning: Minutia is a singular noun meaning a small detail. Minutiae is the Latin plural of minutia, and we usually use it in English. Latin plurals are often tricky, and many eventually drop out of English in favor of –s plurals, but minutiae is deeply entrenched and is likely to stick around, at least in more formal and technical writing registers. Minutias does not regularly appear.

But minutia is often treated as a mass noun (e.g., all the minutia is slowing us down), and it’s sometimes treated as plural, as in the first three examples below. If either of these usages becomes more common, we could soon see minutiae begin to fade from popular usage.
Examples

Because we usually speak of trivial details as plural rather than singular, minutia should properly be less common than minutiae. But minutia is often used in place of its plural—for example:

Menusha
An idiot trying to spell minutia.
While it may seem to be minutia, anyone who writes menusha is a f-ing dumbass.

Tom V.

[GTOGEORGE]

Watch it someone my have someone in their family that's a lawyer! LOL!!!!!
Darn and I'm at work while posting this too!


GTO George

[twinturrbo406]

Originally Posted by Tom Vaught

Minutia

Proper Spelling and meaning: Minutia is a singular noun meaning a small detail. Minutiae is the Latin plural of minutia, and we usually use it in English. Latin plurals are often tricky, and many eventually drop out of English in favor of –s plurals, but minutiae is deeply entrenched and is likely to stick around, at least in more formal and technical writing registers. Minutias does not regularly appear.

But minutia is often treated as a mass noun (e.g., all the minutia is slowing us down), and it’s sometimes treated as plural, as in the first three examples below. If either of these usages becomes more common, we could soon see minutiae begin to fade from popular usage.
Examples

Because we usually speak of trivial details as plural rather than singular, minutia should properly be less common than minutiae. But minutia is often used in place of its plural—for example:

Menusha
An idiot trying to spell minutia.
While it may seem to be minutia, anyone who writes menusha is a f-ing dumbass.

Tom V.

... OR ... an engineer makes continuous statements (over a long period of time) about a given cylinder head being improperly designed, messed up chamber, port issues, head is only about an 800hp head, the people developing the head don't know what they're doing etc etc ...

... and those very same people, with the same head, have now made 1100hp ??? ...

... only one word comes to mind, Tom Vaught ... LMMFAO !!! ... wait, that's a name, no worries, I'm sure the PY Principal will correct me !!! ... LMMFAO !!! ...

... so, boost internet diction & spelling genius, are you gonna answer my question Tom ??? ... or you can't seem to come up with a really good bible post as to how such a smart person like yourself could be so wrong ??? ... LMMFAO

... I'm all ears Tommy ...

[Tom McQueen]

The spelling was cut and pasted directly from the source of the definition. Its slang. And like most slang, the spelling can be somewhat free form.

What's important is the definition.

And one very telling indicator of a small mind is name calling right out of the box.
But par for the course.