From: Anton Sherwood (dasher@netcom.com)
Date: Mon Nov 24 1997 - 19:47:00 MST
Wesley Schwein:
: Pedant-time: [defense of "octopodes"]
:
: Anyway, contemporary usage of Graeco-Latin words doesn't have much to do
: with the real languages. It always annoys me, fer ex, when someone says
: "boni" instead of "bonuses"; it's unnecessary.
Maybe the plural ought to be _bonus_ (long u).
It bugs me to attach an *explicit* plural ending (-es)
to an *explicit* singular ending (-us).
Anton Sherwood *\\* +1 415 267 0685 *\\* DASher@netcom.com
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