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minus-squarePasserby6497@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40·2 months agoPedantry gone too far! Mitochondria would be grammatically correct because there are multiple mitochondrion in the cell. Referring to only one of them would be inaccurate.
minus-squarewander1236@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up29·2 months agoThen it’s the mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell
minus-squareMyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up29·2 months agoUnless “the mitochondria” is a singular group noun, like in “The Village People is a band”, or “This [set of] data was collected…”
minus-squareMac@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 months agoI, too, love pulling this trick out. :p
minus-squaresome_kind_of_guy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoBut then again British English would still use the plural form so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Pedantry gone too far!
Mitochondria would be grammatically correct because there are multiple mitochondrion in the cell. Referring to only one of them would be inaccurate.
Then it’s the mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell
Unless “the mitochondria” is a singular group noun, like in “The Village People is a band”, or “This [set of] data was collected…”
I, too, love pulling this trick out. :p
But then again British English would still use the plural form so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯