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Originally posted by Erik P Conard
English is constantly in change. The language has undergone a
lot of change thru radio and standardization of certain words. The
campi one I had never heard of as pretentious but sometimes used instead of campuses. I use both. I have studied Latin and
have a good romance language background. There are a goodly
number of English words from Latin and we constantly mix up the
singular with the plural...like criterion, criteria; datum, data, and
so on. However, the usage of the Latin amongst educated folk
may not necessarily be "elitist," or "snobbish" and frequently the
critics of such have unlikely darkened a foreign language classroom. We go to college to somewhat upgrade ourselves,
and if that be objectionable, take a look at yourself.
Campuses and campi are both acceptable, in my opinion. But if
you do not understand the differences, don't use 'em, hoss.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Universitätscampus Wien, Austria (details)Campus (plural: campi) is Latin for "field" or "open space". English gets the words "camp" and "campus" from this origin. In English, the plural form campuses is commonly used.

Now I can stop thinking that you and Tom are strange. Well, not completely.