On 16/01/2016 09:12, Graham Easterling wrote:
OK I'm in Penzance but since 1992 I have recorded 523 lower maximums (maxima?) To put it another way over the last 24 years 1 day in 27 has been colder!
January 1997 saw 6 days fail to reach 2C.

Maximums is 'correct'. The English language is not owned and if enough
people use it then it eventually becomes the accepted
version/spelling/grammar.

Maxima is for the language snobs.

And while we're here, why do some people say 'stadia' instead of
stadiums? I thought a stadia was an ancient unit of measurement?

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Nick Gardner
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk