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Surely not!

One's agenda is the totality of one's intentions in a particular context.
One can have many contexts. When I am pursuing my amateur dramatics interest
none of my intentions bear much relation to the other agenda I have relating
to my work.

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Adrian Midgley
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 2:07 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Pedants Weakly
>
> On Thursday 15 January 2004 16:35, Gavin Jamie wrote:
>
> > > "... another agenda ..."
> > >
> > > Agenda is the plural of agendum, so anyone with an agenda has by
> > > definition more than one thing in mind.
> >
> > Surely "... other agenda ..." what with agenda being plural
> and all. :)
>
> I think one's agenda is the totality[1] of ones intentions,
> therefore one has
> one agenda.  It might well be subdivided into sections were
> it written down.
>
>
>
> [1] clearly the word of the week
>