Whats the plural of prospectus?

[HauntedLittleLunatic]

TY :)

I think it's prospectuses. It's definitely campuses, because I had to double check it the other day. I think the rule would be the same.

(and I appologise profusely for my missing appostrophe and also for my obvious mispellingn of profusely)

If you were being all strict and Latinate about it, it would be prospectus (as in one prospectus two prospectus) but with a different length of vowel in the final syllable.

Though I think I would just use prospectuses myself.

Just tell me what to write in my essay...please...

Prospectuses :)

Or if you give us the sentence we could try to rejig it so you can void the problem.

I think I'd write 'prospectus' (with a looong uuu) and say 'prospectuses' when talking in the Real World to Real People ie non-academics .

Who says a pedant has to be consistent??

I think the crucial thing is not to write prospecti.

Oh yes, that would be held against you forever-and-ever.

Can you share the sentence/context to see if a re-jig might help?

The sentence is

First hand observation of this in school 1 highlight weaknesses in this area. Staff in my subject area were reliant upon upper school prospectus to provide the necessary information.

I am talking about the prospectus(es) from 3 schools.

The context is that the staff don't know enough about the options available to their pupils because they are not teaching the GCSE options due to transferring schools at KS4. I am suggesting that they should collaborate with the upper schools so that they can gain a more thorough understanding of the courses available to pupils without having to look it up in the school prospectus (and therefore having no extra info than the pupils and parents),

You can re-write my whole 3500 essay if it will help :)

I have reworded it and I think it now negates the need for the plural of prospectus. I think the first sentence is too clumsy though:

One particular weakness which I observed directly was the lack of knowledge on upper school choices offered by subject staff. In my subject staff were found consulting the prospectus of the relevant upper school (already available to pupils and parents) in order to provide advice.

Sorry, my phone died earlier. I think your rewording gets round the problem admirably!

TY. Do you think the first sentence is too clumsy tho? Doesn't read very well to me.

I don't think you need "directly". It's superfluous. Apart from, it's fine.

Apart from that

What about:

One particular weakness observed in subject staff was a lack of knowledge of ....

TY....and less words too...I hate editing.

I would post the whole essay up for you to critique if it didn't lead to me falling foul of the plagerism sofware which searches for similarities across the web :)

I love editing!

"fewer" words.