If you open "Webster's New World College Dictionary" to the noun "medium" you'll notice that the dictionary's preferred plural is "mediums." And if you're an overworked copy editor at an understaffed newspaper who lost sleep the night before wondering how you'll be paying the mortgage in six months, your reaction might be this: "Mediums? I'll be darned. That's a surprise.

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