Re: Langmaker down since January?

Why not "chasses"? (:
Eugene

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 1:19 AM, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
> wrote:
> >> And then there's "chassis", whose pronunciation changes in the plural
> >> even though the spelling doesn't...  gaaah.
> >
> > I think it's the same in German.
>
> Not sure why the audible-but-invisible inflection bothers me in the
> case of "chassis" but not in the case of "read".
>
> But it does!    I propose that we spell the plural "chassises" henceforth.
> :)
>
> --
> Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
>

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