English is a dynamic language

Small pet peeve: I'm always amazed when I come across different spellings for plurals than I learned when I was in school. I learned the Latin-style pluralization, and those are no longer preferred terms.
personae has become personas
fora has become forums
consortia has become consortiums
You get the idea.

Then I remind myself to repeat the mantra, "English is a dynamic language" and it usually goes away.

[update 14 March]
indices has become indexes

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