Re: CHAT: Worse Greek 102 (was: Bad Latin 101)

Roger Mills wrote:

> More odd plurals:  stewardi (esp. M/F airline ___, "coffee, tea or me?"),
> waitri [wejytraj]  PC plural of waiter/waitress.
> And a friend of mine coined, or passed along, "wood wose" ( as in "the
> native wood wose wild") for what the gay world now calls a twink.  The
> plural was "woodwi" [wUdwij].
I don't get the "wood wose" reference.  Could you explain it?  (I know what a
twink is.)

Growing up, I had a facetious plural for "toothbrush", namely "toothbreesh".  It
always seemed reasonable, even though I can't think of any actual irregular
plurals on that pattern.

Matt.