Re: Langmaker down since January?
| From: | David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 10, 2008, 7:36 |
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Plural of "thesis" is "theses". So "chassis" would be
"chasses".��-David�*******************************************************************�"A
male love inevivi i'ala'i oku i ue pokulu'ume o heki a."�"No eternal reward
will forgive us now for wasting the dawn."��-Jim
Morrison��http://dedalvs.free.fr/��On Jun 9, 2008, at 10∞25 PM,
andrew wrote:��> I would suggest "chassies" as the plural form. Similar�>
to "thesis~thesies"�>�> - andrew.�>�> On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Eugene Oh
wrote:�>> 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@...>�>�>�>�> --�> Andrew Smith -- hobbit@griffler.co.nz
--�> http://hobbit.griffler.co.nz/homepage.html�>�> "If you are gonna
rebell you have to wear our uniform."�
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