to have less and less faith in DS teacher

[OrlandoWoolf]

He has to find some plurals for his spelling test.
Either she's being really clever or she does not actually know.

Dice

As she "has form" on homework mistakes and spelling errors - I suspect she does not know the mistake she's made.

[ErrorError]

Actually yeah I have never said 'dices' myself, but my response was a little tongue in cheek, meaning to go above and beyond what's required to justify the teacher's expectations. Ah. But if the teacher was referring to the act of dicing food, then 'he/she dices potatoes' would make sense. However, it's the game cube/polyhedra whatever. I'm just confusing myself thinking about it!

[thecatlikesmebest]

No one uses die as the singular for dice in real life
They do in this house.
Parent of pedants.

[noblegiraffe]

Ah, those saying 'I do' are on MN and therefore not in real life

[Taz1212]

Oh dear, more proof that I am a pedant. I use die for the singular- thought everyone did.

[Metebelis3]

NOBLE Yes they do. So long as they aren't illiterate.

[FredFredGeorge]

You're not even pedants, but anachronistic pedants...

Do you insist on "Much was ate" to?

[lljkk]

And I only use data in the plural, lol. Dinosaurs we are!

[SilverApples]

Call summat by the wrong name in a lesson observation, get marked down.
Call summat by the right name, but the observer don't know it, get marked down.
Stuffed both ways really.

[YouTheCat]

I use die for singular and have done since my d & d days.

[Shente]

Fredfred, derailing a little but why would it ever be much was ate? Is eaten a new-fangled past participle?

[defineme]

lljkk do you say 'datum' as singular then?

[YouTheCat]

I also say datum as the singular.

[FredFredGeorge]

It was just an example I readily remembered from a good piece on language and how it's fashion not rules really with English Grammar, it was from Jane Austen.

This looks like the piece I was remembering.
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/09/a-matter-of-fashion/

[JohnnyBarthes]

But when would you ever talk about a singular bit of data? Actually I think irl that's pretty much how I'd refer to it - as an item of data, not a datum.

[Shente]

Data isn't really often found in yyther singular - wouldn't one piece of data just be a fact? To be data there needs to be an accumulation of information

[lljkk]

i would probably say "data point" as the singular. Or "bit of information".
I say criterion a lot, though, using it properly.
tbh, I find handwringing over language change a bit silly, language always changes. I mostly like language changes. It's clarity of communication not set-in-stone convention that matters.

[FredFredGeorge]

Data is quite often used in the singular as part of "data point" isn't it.

I think the distinction between fact and data is that it comes from research.

[MaeMobley]

she's a teacher, not God, you don't need to have faith in her!

and I hope you do not share this lack of faith with your DC.

[OrlandoWoolf]

So - she wants us to find the plural.

So dice is fine. I might just mention that some people use die for a single dice.

Chateau - do we do chateaus or chateaux? Both correct according to OED.

Clergyman, chairman.

Curriculum - dictionary says curricula or curriculums.

This will be an interesting spelling test when they mark it.

[complexnumber]

As another maths teacher, I always mention the fact that the singular of dice is die.

I then clarify any misconceptions pupils may have with mice, or with the plural of house...

(I am forever referring to 'criterion' and 'criteria' in boring paper work)

[mrspremise]

I'm no-one. I do not exist. Neither do my ds9 or my ds7. We all know that one die, two dice is correct and use the correct forms. BECAUSE IT IS CORRECT. Just because some people get it wrong doesn't mean it stops being wrong, otherwise we'd all be voting for the BNP, ffs...

[BobPatSamandIgglePiggle]

Stop looking for something to bash the teacher over.

I do hope you're not critical and negative in front of the children.

[OrlandoWoolf]

bobpat

This is the 5th thing recently about homework. Talking about homophones that aren't homophones, using split commas in homework, monosyllabic words that aren't and teaching how to multiply and divide by 10 incorrectly.

I am a primary teacher and I don't want to keep having to explain to DS the correct way to do it and why so and so is incorrect.

[OrlandoWoolf]

And I know enough primary teachers who can't spell, who can't use punctuation and grammar correctly and who can't do "hard" maths. I saw it on my course and I saw it at schools I have worked at.

[LifeHuh]

Thing is it can be hard to not be critical about a teacher in front of your children when what they are being taught is wrong.

We had a lovely discussion the time DS's science teacher told the class sharks were mammals,like dolphins.We also had a truly awful and misleading homework about prefixes involving matching prefixes to the word where one word was "circus" (related to words like circumference but as far as I know "cir" isn't a prefix.Someone is going to tell me I'm wrong now ,aren't they )and some of the words only worked is you looked at Latin/anglo Saxon...rather off point for Year 3!

I don't diss the teacher personally,but I do sigh a bit.