Jutta Fastner

Umweltbundesamt Wörlitzer Platz 1 Dessau 06844 DE

jutta.fastner@uba.de The study of plankton is termed planktology and a planktonic individual is referred to as a plankter.^[10] The adjective planktonic is widely used in both the scientific and popular literature, and is a generally accepted term. However, from the standpoint of prescriptive grammar, the less-commonly used planktic is more strictly the correct adjective. When deriving English words from their Greek or Latin roots, the gender-specific ending (in this case, "-on" which indicates the word is neuter) is normally dropped, using only the root of the word in the derivation.

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