"ad nauseum" {Pedantry Alert}

[Tim Keenan & Rebecca Counts]

Dear List--

For the enquiring minds out there who care, "nausea" is a 
first-declension feminine noun in Latin, and "nauseam" is the accusative 
case, required by the preposition "ad". It means "to [the point of] 
nausea". There is no such word as nauseum.

Likewise all those other borrowed latin phrases, "ad hominem" (not 
hominum) "in memoriam" (not memorium) ad infinitum.....

For those who hate this sort of rant, I did warn you in the subject line.

Best regards, 

Tim

Terrace, BC