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 >