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

Eugene Oh wrote:
> Oh, "bus"! I should've caught that. Now I feel very stupid. :S
> As for the plural of omnibus... I guess that'll have to be "omnibuses",
> since "omnibus" is a Latin plural dative, and there most certainly weren't
> any buses in ancient Rome! (Although Usborne, the publisher, might
> disagree...)
Oh how disappointment. Maybe we should be talking of one ah ... i then.
One i, two bus. Anyway, as you said: there's no bus_es_ plural in
ancient Rome, so we'd better have a plural for the word. Otherwise they
couldn't deny their existence! From which one may decude the reason the
English singular comes from the Latin plural. (I like logic ;)

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Tristan.