Re: Bad Latin
| From: | Irina Rempt <ira@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 13, 2001, 8:35 |
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On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 kam@CARROT.CLARA.NET wrote:
> I may have missed it, but has anyone mentioned "octopi" ("octopii" ??)
> yet? I once saw "octopods" in the title of a scientific paper.
I think it should be "octopodes" really, because "octopus" is the
Latin spelling of a Greek word.
> Somehow adding the English -s plural to words that already end in <s>
> seems a bit messy and uncertain. I always want to keep duplicating the
> <s> -- octopusississis ...
Octopussies!
> Can I put in another vote for "hoodla" please. Can you derive a verb
> meaning "to behave in an antisocial manner"?
"to hoodle"? Sounds like it already exists. <look it up> No, not in
my 1970 Concise Oxford, but it may have come into existence in the
last thirty years.
Irina
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