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Re: YAEPT: uu/ii (< Quick Latin pronunciation question)

From:Ph. D. <phil@...>
Date:Friday, May 30, 2008, 4:56
Tristan McLeay wrote:
> > We're making fake latin plurals from singulars ending in -us. Either -i > (as in viri <- virus) or -ii (as in virii <- virus). So bi and bii would > come from "bus". Altho in this context "bus" actually comes from > "omnibus" --- I don't know what the correct plural of it is, but it's > plausible that it is "omnibi" in which case getting around using bi > instead of driving might be a reasonable thing to do...
"omnibus" is already dative plural, "for all."